Posts Tagged: resistance
PSA Newsletter #33 (October 2025)
The PSA Newsletter #33, “The Decolonial Caribbean”, challenges colonial mindsets, past and ongoing, as well as bringing to the fore Caribbean indigenous and marginalized groups’ ways of being. As always, we hope to foster informed, wide-ranging, and respectful debates on the topic on focus, and more in general in the field of postcolonial studies, by sharing original contribution, book reviews, and conference reports by colleagues from across the world.
The Newsletter opens with one original contribution by Clément Laurelli, who discussesthe essay ...
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PSA Newsletter #32 (April 2025)
The PSA Newsletter #32 explores and reflects on the ways in which postcolonial and indigenous authors “reinvent the enemy’s language” by appropriating Western literary traditions – whether in format or in content – in order to challenge mainstream Western perspectives, expose colonial legacies, and bring to the fore their ontologies and cultural practices.
The newsletter opens with five original contributions. Caitlin H. Cronin explores the ways in which Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie challenges traditionally Western formats such as the bildungsroman and the language of ...
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PSA Newsletter #31 (October 2024)
The PSA Newsletter #31 focuses on the theme “Exploring/ Expanding/ Challenging the Postcolonial Canon”, which will invite readers to ask crucial questions about both the limits of the label “postcolonial” and the criteria that determine a literary work as part of the “canon” of postcolonial literature. Following a letter to the Association’s members with updates from the PSA’s Executive Committee, the issue continues with eight original contributions. Aminat Emma Badmus opens the newsletter with an exploration of Akwaeke Emezi’s Dear Senthuran: ...
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New Special Issue: “Native American Narratives in a Global Context”, Guest edited by Eman Ghanayem and Rebecca Macklin
Transmotion: An Online Journal of Postmodern Indigenous Studies, Vol 5, No 1 (2019)
URL: https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/issue/view/37?fbclid=IwAR2-W2akpota0GN08QmdXigji19xiz-FWYetECuaIHoWtwTJfcG2pCtTBl8
Native American Narratives in a Global Context
In our contemporary moment, the world is seeing an increase in transnational Indigenous and decolonial activist movements. Idle No More, the BDS movement for a Free Palestine, and #NoDAPL and Mni Wiconi have all garnered international attention and trans-cultural calls for solidarity. These movements exemplify and build on long traditions of Indigenous resistance in international contexts and commitments to other marginalized groups. Mindful ...
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