A History of Hopes Postponed
Women's Identity and the Postcolonial State in Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey toward Independence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9249889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Salah Moukhlis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 66-83 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ral.2003.34.3.66 |
| OpenAlex | W2003160444 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 11 |
One of the main concerns of postcolonial theory is to lay bare the dehumanizing and economically devastating consequences of colonialism on indigenous populations and to restore voice to the natives who had been silenced and exploited under colonial rule. Ever since the appearance of Edward Said's Orientalism, postcolonial theory has focused more on issues of representation in colonial discourse and the agency of the natives. The concern of postcolonial and emerging voices, as a response, has centered on subverting the assumptions of colonial discourse and rewriting its history from the vantage point of the subaltern. However, the direction that postcolonial theory was taking with its emphasis or rather overemphasis on the history of colonialism has received cautionary statements from a host of postcolonial critics with different political and academic agendas. Aijaz Ahmad, Ella Shohat, and Anne McClintock among others have all warned against establishing colonialism as a time marker around which other histories and subjectivities define themselves
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Art · Colonialism · Dehumanization · Feminism · Identity (music) · Independence (probability theory) · Indigenous · Orientalism · Political science · Politics · Postcolonialism (international relations) · Representation (politics) · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Subaltern · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Law · Socioeconomic Development in MENA
Theorising from global south literature for praxis
The identity of educated women in India
The Forgotten Face of Postcoloniality
Articulating Visibility in the African-Muslim Contexts of Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter and Leila Abouzeid's Year of the Elephant
American expatriate translations and cultural negotiation
Women's writing in Présence Africaine . A thought revolution by Fatou Diome
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |