Postcolonialism


Orientalism
The Wretched of the Earth
Black Skin, White Masks
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Discourse on Colonialism
Culture and Imperialism
The Location of Culture
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
Heart of Darkness
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
Wide Sargasso Sea
The God of Small Things
The Colonizer and the Colonized
Season of Migration to the North
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
John  Green
Bei dieser Passage gibt es nur ein einziges Problem: Es stimmt nicht. »Der Mensch« hat keineswegs den Atem angehalten angesichts dieses Kontinents, denn wenn wir uns »den Menschen« als die gesamte Menschheit vorstellen, dann hat »der Mensch« die Gegend schon gekannt, ja bereits seit Zehntausenden von Jahren bewohnt. Die Verwendung von »der Mensch« verrät uns am Ende viel darüber, wen genau der Erzähler als Person anerkennt und von welchem Standpunkt die Geschichte erzählt wird.
John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

Collective guilt, the damaging impact of cultural appropriation, our servility to amorphous power structures, the primacy of identity politics; all of these concepts and more are now uncritically accepted by many of those in positions of authority. When politicians use phrases such as 'white privilege' and 'systemic racism', for instance, they are deploying the language of Critical Race Theory without necessarily understanding the full implications of the ideas behind the buzzwords. They are the ...more
Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

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