Essays about: "postcolonial critique"

Showing result 21 - 23 of 23 essays containing the words postcolonial critique.

  1. 21. Happy Multicultural Land? Reading Zadie Smith’s "White Teeth" as a Critique of Multiculturalism as an Ideology

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Suzana Abrahamsson; [2013-04-16]
    Keywords : Postcolonial; Multiculturalism; Immigration; Identity; Ethnicity; “Race”; “Englishness”;

    Abstract : This essay explores the portrayal of multiculturalism in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth in order to show how Smith, rather than as an ideology, depicts it as a reality. Through its characters’ experience as immigrants of different generations and various ethnic backgrounds in London – one on the most “multicultural” cities in the world – the novel effectively questions the utopian idea of a “Happy Multicultural Land”, that is to say a trouble-free harmonious society. READ MORE

  3. 22. A Decolonized State: The Success of Botswana Revisited

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Niclas Ivarsson; [2011]
    Keywords : Botswana; Neo-patrimonial structures; Postcolonial theory; State-building; State legitimacy; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Botswana has since independence showed a remarkable economic and political stability and been spared of conflict, ethnic violence, and large scale human rights violations that have been a common occurrence in other parts of Africa. This single case study examines why Botswana has been spared from neo-patrimonial structures by analyzing three other cases with much less successful performance records. READ MORE

  4. 23. Mixed Messages within The Buddha of Suburbia

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Ann-Louise Lindgren Edmonds; [2007]
    Keywords : postcolonial theory; marxist theory; Bakhtin; carnevalesque; British culture;

    Abstract : Abstract The mixed messages provided in The Buddha of Suburbia together with its prevalent use of humour are the focal point for this essay. The aim is to defend my thesis statement that humour provides a justifiable forum for the critique and presentation of society, enabling the facilitation of serious, effective and powerful perspectives. READ MORE