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Indigenous decolonization describes ongoing theoretical and political processes whose goal is to contest and reframe narratives about indigenous community histories and the effects of colonial expansion, cultural assimilation, exploitative Western research, and often though not inherent, genocide. [1]
The acts of resurgence reclaim the Indigenous storyline, a counter-narrative, drawing away from hurt and grief, toward a future of hope. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] [ 8 ] [ 3 ] Glen Coulthard states that Indigenous resurgence is a movement of nation building and decolonizing through the framework of grounded normativity. [ 7 ]
Postcolonial literature is the literature by people from formerly colonized countries, originating from all continents except Antarctica. Postcolonial literature often addresses the problems and consequences of the decolonization of a country, especially questions relating to the political and cultural independence of formerly subjugated people, and themes such as racialism and colonialism.
Earlier this year, as she and her spouse piled into their Hyundai Tucson and prepared to travel the American South seeking answers about the ancestors she knew had been enslaved, Michelle Johnson ...
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States (often referred to as the WPA Slave Narrative Collection) is a collection of histories by formerly enslaved people undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938. It was the simultaneous effort of state-level branches of FWP in ...
Map of Decolonized Countries. Special Committee on Decolonization. United Nations. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures aims to give a theoretical account of an extensive range of post-colonial texts and how these texts relate to a greater number of issues relating to post-colonial culture.
Penn State led 10-0 late in the second quarter and had a chance to keep Notre Dame off the board. But the defense failed to fall on a fumble, allowing the Irish to get on the board with a field goal.
Narrative themes can also depend on the event type. Different event types have varying levels of tension, and researchers posit that tension level is associated with narrative construct scores. For example, a mortality (or life-threatening) event would have a higher tension level than a leisure (i.e. vacation) event.