British-Irish historical memory: the legacy of the Anglo-Irish conflict in the first four volumes of the Lives Entwined project by Slimane Hargas

“…This article shall attempt to determine the extent to which the personal accounts given by the contributors to Lives Entwined testify to the “postcolonial recalibration” of British-Irish relations referred to by Tony Reilly in his introductory remarks to the first volume. …”
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Les juifs d’Algérie face aux nationalités française et algérienne (1940-1963) by Pierre-Jean Le Foll Luciani

“…This essay also uses this specific case to reveal the tensions that arose around the issue of nationality in colonial and postcolonial Algeria.…”
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So Close and Yet so Foreign: Trans-Border relations in Paul S. Flores’ Along the Border Lies (2001) by Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger

“…Flores’ Along the Border Lies looks at the northern and southern sides of the San Diego-Tijuana border region from a Chicano, postcolonial, postmodern perspective that considers class, status, and national origin as factors determining the way one relates to this place, the extent to which the border can be crossed in one direction or another, and the chances one has on the U.S and Mexican sides respectively. …”
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THE RECLAIMING CUBAN CULTURAL IDENTITY WHILE LIVING AS A CUBAN DIASPORA IN AMERICA AS DEPICTED IN CAMILA CABELLO “HAVANA” by Tan Michael Chandra

“… Question of identity remains one of the most important and debatable concept in the world of postcolonial theory especially when it is related to cultural identity of the diaspora. …”
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New Area Studies as an Epistemological Framework: Some Reflections of Knowledge Production and Positionality by Marianela Barrios Aquino

“…In this paper, I argue that New Area Studies is useful as a lens through which to engage with decolonial and postcolonial critiques of the social sciences and humanities. …”
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Interpretando la(s) cultura(s) después de la televisión: sobre el método by Lila Abu-Lughod

“…Las grandes preguntas, un estudio multisituado de la recepción, de los textos y de la producción de las novelas televisadas en Egipto, pueden servir para comprender la naturaleza de la cultura (reconociendo sus aspectos hegemónicos o ideológicos) y de las culturas (que resultan cosmopolitas en los lugares donde esto no se espera como en Egipto) en la postmodernidad postcolonial. …”
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Contemporary Painting as Reflector of Yoruba Cultural Values by Michael Olusegun Fajuyigbe

“…The study traces the origin of painting in Africa, from its earliest forms in African caves, shrines, and palaces, through the colonial and postcolonial eras to the present. Based on their contexts, eight (8) paintings that portray specific values of the Yorùbá and are ingrained with symbolic motifs, patterns and imageries are selected. …”
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Filming Up: Brazilian Elites Through an Ethnographic Lens by Alex Vailati, Walter Andrade

“…Social inequalities within and outside cinema production infrastructure allow the affirmation of several directors, who implicitly contest this postcolonial order through their production focused on empowered groups. …”
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The Subaltern and Failed Existential Resistance in Idrus’s Short Story “Kisah Sebuah Celana Pendek” by Isnan Waluyo, Muhammad Rizal, David D. Perrodin

“…The theoretical framework employed in this study is subaltern theory—an idea referring to groups considered voiceless or incapable of speaking—through a postcolonial critical reading inspired by Gayatri Spivak. …”
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The Transition from Yorùbá Metaphysics to Islamic Aesthetics in Ọláńrewájú Adépọ̀jù’s Poetry by Stephen Toyin Ogundipe

“…It employs hybridity, an aspect of postcolonial theory advanced by Homi Bhabha, as a theoretical framework to analyze the texts. …”
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Madagascar, 29 mars 1947, « Tabataba ou parole des temps troubles » by Valérie MAGDELAINE-ANDRIANJAFITRIMO

“…These fluctuating memories reveal to what extent the postcolonial present is still haunted by the colonial past. …”
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S’affirmer en tant qu’homme par la lutte : le genre comme outil politique pour les travailleurs maghrébins dans les années 1970 ? by Baptiste Feuillye

“…This social conflict was part of the protest movement against the Marcellin-Fontanet circulars in France, and more generally in an unprecedented period of mobilization of postcolonial immigrant workers in the early 1970s. This paper first addresses by which processes these Maghrebin workers were gendered and assigned to a marginal masculinity within French society. …”
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Collective Awareness and Lyrical Poetry: The Emergence of Creole Literary Culture in the Archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe by Ewa A. Łukaszyk

“…It could be a way of overcoming the Eurocentric “chronopolitics” that remained valid also in the postcolonial studies, associating the decolonial processes, on the one hand, with the metropolis as a place where the decolonial thought took shape, and on the other, with the chronology, rhythms, and trends of its literary evolution. …”
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Victim or Villain? A Study of Deconstruction in Tiara Andini’s ‘Maafkan Aku’ by Meria Zakiyah Alfisuma, Eka Susylowati, M. Masqotul Imam Romadlani

“…This study applies deconstruction, a key theory in postcolonial studies, to analyze and reinterpret the meaning within Tiara Andini's popular Indonesian song, Maafkan Aku. …”
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Aux origines de l’immigration marocaine en Midi-Pyrénées by Arthur Baylac

“…The available documentation about the regional Moroccan presence is still to be explored, but some of its elements highlight the role of tiny postcolonial Moroccan migrations in the development of the massive migratory flow which came after them starting in the mid-1960s. …”
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A Sociocultural Appraisal of Yorùbá Kegites’ Songs by George Olúsolá Ajíbádé

“…It shows the practice of engagement by the Kegites through which identity can be textually constructed in ways that politicize self-representation and challenge discourses grounded in the colonial and postcolonial histories of the Yorùbá people. Through the discussion of themes such as ancestral presence, the aesthetics of orature, and the political significance of group or society (ẹgbé) ̣ among the Yorùbá, the paper seeks to showcase the presence of a characteristic of Yorùbá oral literature in which personal, cultural, economic, social and political issues become inseparable. …”
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O ESTADO ATUAL DA SOCIOLOGIA: algumas observações face ao próximo Congresso ALAS by Alain Caillé

“…Propõe então que se a sociologia quiser sobreviver terá de se abrir para as novas discussões como a dos postcolonial studies e subaltern studies, e também a dos gender studies e care studies, e aquelas teorias de importante dimensão moral como as do reconhecimento e do dom. …”
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The Falklands War on the British Screen: Plural Memories of an Occulted War by Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet

“…This filmography can be interpreted as a form of repentance for what is now often perceived as an upsurge of postcolonial hubris and raises the question of how to remember a war that is anything but heroic.…”
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Authority and Moral Conflicts in the Films of Adébáyọ Fálétí: Àfọ̀njá, Gáà, Ṣawo Ṣẹ̀gbẹ̀rì and the Yorùbá Cosmopolis by Olayinka Agbetuyi

“…In Àfọ̀njá and Gáà that context is provided by the empire phase of Yorùbá civilization in which Yorùbá civilization was the dominant point of reference; in Ṣawo Ṣẹgbẹ ̀ rì ̀ the drama is situated in the context of postcolonial Nigerian city, in a nation that boasts large ethnic nationalities of which the Yorùbá are only one and in which Yorùbá culture is mediated by the postcolonial state with its symbol of the English language as the means of communication and its cultural spin offs. …”
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"He told me to hold my tongue" : de la violence physique à la subjectivation politique dans The History of Mary Prince by Frédéric Regard

“…The cooperation between Prince and Strickland has been analysed as one the very first instances of a deep convergence betwen feminist and postcolonial interests. I argue that it would be even more infesting to include Pringle himself in the play of this ’interval’ between Prince’s martyred body and her voice. …”
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