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New Literatures - Southern And East Africa, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
New Literatures - Southern And East Africa, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
Michael Meyer introduces Word and Image in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures as a book 'that pays attention to the gaze and the voice in both visual and verbal respresentations of post/colonial spectacles (p.xvii).
Globalised Cartographies Of Being: Literature, Refugees And The Australian Nation, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Globalised Cartographies Of Being: Literature, Refugees And The Australian Nation, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
This chapter considers the figure of the refugee as the displaced individual through the reading of a number of Australian literary works, which explore displacement 'as an extreme case of a more general modern condition - the powerlessness of the individual caught in the grip of vast collective purposes', to borrow Ian Watt's (1959: 218) comments on World War II prisoners of war. Through a critical reading of selected works aimed both at children and adult readers, I consider the role textual representation can play in creating a different understanding of the subject positions of the mass of individuals arriving …
Linguistic Minorities, Migration And The Nation State, Henri Jeanjean, Lidia Bilbatua, Gaetano Rando, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Linguistic Minorities, Migration And The Nation State, Henri Jeanjean, Lidia Bilbatua, Gaetano Rando, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
The last thirty or so years have seen the influx of millions of people from Africa, the former Soviet Union, the Indian sub-continent, middle and far east into EU countries leading to the formation of new culturally, linguistic and religiously diverse minorities in the areas where they have settled. This paper proposes to address the question of how established minorities react to this inflow of other minorities, and specifically how linguistic minorities face this new situation by taking as a specific case study the centuries- old Occitan, Catalan and Corsican minorities in their diverse sociohistorical and political contexts that range …