My article will provide a brief overview of a plethora of terms used in the postcolonial studies to deal with the aftermath of globalization, such as hybridity, syncretism and Creolisation, all of which have been borrowed ...

This article engages with the fiction African American women who turn to the Caribbean region in search of “their mothers gardens.” It also explores their extraordinary affinity with magical realist fiction produced by ...

Esej przedstawia postać jednej z laureatek Pokojowej Nagrody Nobla z 2011 roku - Leymah Gbowee, która została obdarzona zaszczytnym przydomkiem „bojowniczki o pokój”. W uzasadnieniu dla tej nominacji, Norweski Komitet ...

Rok 2011, w którym przyznano Pokojową Nagrodę Nobla Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee oraz Tawakkul Karman był przełomowym momentem w życiu laureatek oraz ich rodaków. Przyznanie Pokojowej Nagrody Nobla tym trzem ...

My paper discusses the book The Dew Breaker by the Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat, considered the chief spokesperson for Haitian diaspora in the USA. This collection of short stories deals with terror and trauma ...

The purpose of this essay is to present to Polish readers of contemporary American literature the literary output of ethnic women writers, who enjoy currently unprecedented popularity in the American academia and among ...

The concept of the nation and nationalism is the most significant development of Modernity. The ideas of nation and nationalism have been also adopted by different oppressed minority groups and by many postcolonial countries ...

“Nation and nationalism” are most debated topics in contemporary Caribbean theory. Understandably questions of national coming-intobeing, cultural emancipation and the emergence of national consciousness were of paramount ...

My essay will provide an overview of a variety of critical approaches to Jamaica Kincaid’s polyphonic fiction. Postcolonial as well as psychoanalytic theories have been the cognitive tools by means of which most critics ...