Writing 'home': Mediating between 'the local' and 'the literary' in a selection of postcolonial women's texts

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A selection of texts by postcolonial women writers, including Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, Adhaf Soueif and Assia Djebar is presented to explore the ways that the worlds of the 'oral' and 'the scribal' intersect and collide in their fictions. The diverse ways in which the writers negotiate the cultural spheres of the 'local' and the 'literary' offers insights into the possibilities and limitations of regional and the postcolonial categorizations.

Influence, Women writers, Women authors, Postcolonialism, Oral tradition

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China in Africa: challenging US global hegemony

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The new relation of friendship and cooperation between China and Africa has resulted in China becoming a force in Africa. The measures, which Africa and China should adopt, to tighten their relations and challenge the hegemony of the dollar and US imperialism are presented.

China, Public affairs, Social aspects, Political aspects, Chinese foreign relations, American imperialism

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Fear of a black planet: anarchy anxieties and postcolonial travel to Africa

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In the western tourism Africa is always marketed as an exoticised destination to see and consume both nature and native. Kaplan's work and a discussion of its implications for Africa and African international relations is critically evaluated.

HOTELS AND OTHER LODGING PLACES, Tourist Travel, Evaluation, Description and travel, Travel industry, Tourism, Critics, Kaplan, Robert

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