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"colonial discourse" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a language, literature, and other cultural aspects that were created or influenced by colonialism, as in the following sentence: "Scholars have become increasingly aware of the role of colonial discourse in literature of that period."
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There, she was a founding member of the group for the critical study of colonial discourse.
Notwithstanding Greig's self-awareness, and while not wanting to stand in the way of playwrights anywhere making a living, I do question the politics and ethics of theatres in the west continuing to contribute to the longstanding tradition of what is, in essence, colonial discourse.
Perhaps the article should instead focus on the differences between Zinder and other towns in the Sahel region that do have this problem: why are some inspired by western gang culture and others look to Isis? Descriptions of the Yan palais phenomenon reflect a wider problem in western coverage of Africa, much of which features veiled colonial discourse imagining primitive and savage populations.
The colonial discourse of mimicry therefore "emerges as the representation of a difference that is itself a process of disavowal" (Bhabha 1994, 86).
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And - following the closure of an Iraqi newspaper for criticism of US occupiers - at what point could a legitimate anti-colonial discourse be classified as hate speech?
However, over the past few decades, with the growth of humanitarian and development sectors (and associated neo-colonial discourse), a new definition has been cultivated, and it makes me wince.
The Channel 4 documentary followed two of the town's inhabitants, Tommy Robinson, leader of the English Defence League, and Sayful Islam, an activist with a series of banned extremist groups, who have taken up fanatical opposition in what might politely be termed the post-colonial discourse.
Would you agree that Latin American magic realism came forward as one of the most popular agents of the post-colonial discourse?
Keats, with medical training, having suffered chronic illness himself, and influenced like his contemporaries by "colonial medical discourse", was deeply aware of this threat.
My research explores post-colonial literature and discourse from North Africa dealing with questions of gender, sexuality and Islam.
However, if we reflect upon what the Mill quote invites – the "exaltation of women" as a discourse legitimising the colonial occupation of India – then we might also question the whole notion of "developing country".
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