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By Kerry Bystrom & Carolyn Ownbey “Postcolonial studies and Cold War scholarship treat contemporaneous cultural phenomena, yet they have seldom crossed paths.”[1] This astute observation forms the starting point for…
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Surprisingly little critical work has been done on the intersection of oil and Arabic literature, despite the centrality of the carbon economy to the…
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Monica Popescu’s At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War invites us to rethink the place of African literature in the context…
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Analyzing African literature through a Cold War lens nuances both objects of study, adding layers of complexity to an already overwrought sociopolitical landscape in…
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Ama Ata Aidoo’s 1977 novel Our Sister Killjoy is often remembered as a novel about the harrowing legacy of colonialism and, in the postcolonial moment,…
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Monica Popescu’s new book brings postcolonial studies under the “Cold War lens” to examine the latter’s buried traces in African cultural productions.[1] It goes…
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Monica Popescu’s At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War brilliantly diagnoses the fragmentation of postcolonial studies and Cold War studies, showing…
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In 2000, at the turn of the millennium, Aijaz Ahmad published an article that looks back at Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s “The Communist…
