Reclaiming the Past: Restoration of Personal and Communal History in Petals of Blood
The implications of the colonialist discourse, which suggested that the colonized is a person “whose historical, physical, and metaphysical geography begins with European memory” (Thiong’o, 2009), urged postcolonial writers to correct these views by addressing the issues from their own perspectives....
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| Language: | English |
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Charles University
2018-07-01
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| Series: | Prague Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/pjes-2018-0007 |