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2 articles for “postcolonial”
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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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Depiction of Colonial Indian Women in Jim Corbett’s ‘My India’
Abstract: Jim Corbett was a domiciled British who were working as a fuel inspector and later as transshipment contractor in Mokameh Ghat in colonial India. In his all books the reflection of contemporary cultural, social, religious Indian is found. There are also some woman characters mentioned in his books. The book My India is a picture gallery of Indian characters with whom Corbett has came across during his work period and …
Published in Emerging Trends in Languages · Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2024 · pp. 08–11 Read article