Sentence examples for colonial narrative from inspiring English sources

It seeks "to challenge the typical colonial narrative" of empire.

Bad company: Lawrence Norfolk's Lemprière's Dictionary (1991) accounted for the British East India Company's brutal creed of expansion - an ethos that would enable many a future colonial narrative.

Indigenous London by Coll Thrush (Yale) reverses the colonial narrative, looking at the history of London through the eyes of travellers from British colonies over 500 years.

But Kumar's "nonfiction novel," about an Indian student who comes to the United States to study literature, is tentative, funny, and self-critical it invertself-critical ite coloninvertsrandve.

He says that "the constant unpacking of the colonial narrative" offered by Picnic at Hanging Rock has been a consistent interest for local audiences, to whom its metaphoric references – intrusion into the landscape, and displacement within it – are readily understood.

This inquiry reflects on the fundamental meaning of the Gateway of India monument in Mumbai, as an artifact that carries on the British colonial narrative in the form of an icon of contemporary tourist consumption.

Singh, Jyotsna, Colonial Narratives: Discoveries of India in the Language of Colonialism, London : Routledge, 1996.

In India, recent colonial narratives include Amitav Ghosh's wonderful Sea of Poppies and Tabish Khair's The Thing about Thugs.

Tatchell, who twice tried to arrest Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe over human rights abuses, added: "The colonial narratives of racism and homophobia are very closely intertwined.

In doing so, it builds on earlier work of pioneering economic historians of the region, while attempting to go beyond the conceptual and methodological divisions that separate economic historians from historians as well as those that separate nationalist from colonial narratives.

Kent Monkman's Massive Renaissance-Style Paintings Upend Colonial Narratives.