Reconsidering the PostColonial Symposium
Date: Friday, October 25
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:15 PM
Location: Online
Since the early inception of postcolonial inquiry in the late 1970s, with its focus on another way of interrogating colonial history, its rhetoric of empire, and its harrowing practices, many new theoretical explorations have been unfolding in response to a rise in aggressive forms of colonialism. The relative departure from Cold War polarization, and new strategies of proxy wars, along with the devastating impact on societies (environment, lands and people), have recently been impelling scholars to revisit the postcolonial, its early underpinnings, and engagements. This Symposium participates in a rigorous interrogation of specific omissions so as to generate a revised perspective on postcolonialism. The growing role of social media, the presence of photography, televised war reports, and the surge in narratives, canticles, and poetry, provide a set of realities that was not as visible in the late 1970s and 1980s. These realities pose a challenge to the monopoly of corporate media and to the unitary discourse that is the trademark of the rhetoric of war machines.
