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3 articles for “Postcolonial Literature”
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Listening to Colonial Disruption: Sound, Silence, and Cultural Memory in the Works of Chinua Achebe
Abstract: This article examines the significance of sound and silence in the fiction of Chinua Achebe,arguing that auditory experience functions as a crucial medium through which cultural memory,identity, and resistance are represented. Although Achebe’s novels have been extensively studied in relation to colonialism, nationalism, and language politics, comparatively little attention has been paid to their acoustic dimensions. Drawing on postcolonial theory, oral tradition studies, and cultural memory studies, this paper investigates …
Published in Emerging Trends in Languages · Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2026 Read article
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Listening to Colonial Disruption: Sound, Silence, and Cultural Memory in the Works of Chinua Achebe
Abstract: This article examines the significance of sound and silence in the fiction of Chinua Achebe, arguing that auditory experience functions as a crucial medium through which cultural memory, identity, and resistance are represented. Although Achebe’s novels have been extensively studied in relation to colonialism, nationalism, and language politics, comparatively little attention has been paid to their acoustic dimensions. Drawing on postcolonial theory, oral tradition studies, and cultural memory studies, this …
Published in Emerging Trends in Languages · Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2026 · pp. 10–15 Read article
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Jayant Mahapatra’s India: A Mirage of Social Introspection
Abstract: Indian English Literature is a mixture of Indian sensibility and Indian culture on one side and Western language on the other side. Indian English writers from different time frames have variedly injected the socio-political and cultural components in their literary works as it is said that literature mirrors society and can serve as a social document. No writer can escape from the race, milieu, and moment in which he or …
Published in OmniScience: A Multi-disciplinary Journal · Vol. 14, Issue 2, 2024 · pp. 51–54 Read article