Abstract
Author(s): Alfaisal, Haifa Saud | Abstract: Border Reading: Epistemic Reading and the Worlding of Postcolonialism
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My academic career began in the late 1990s when I began researching so-called magical realist texts and literary representations of indigenous counter-modernity religious discourse
That led to explorations in literary indigeneity and what Robert Young has called postcolonialism’s “secular terms” (338)
To leave the problem of indigeneity unattended to would be to foreclose the possibility of indigenous knowledge becoming a viable source of theory itself, for example, but more importantly it would mean the entrenchment of colonially inflected reading strategies in world literary critical practices
Summary
My academic career began in the late 1990s when I began researching so-called magical realist texts and literary representations of indigenous counter-modernity religious discourse. I would like to problematize the apparently facile transition from postcolonial studies to world literature by exploring the problem of indigeneity, literary expressions of indigenous ways of knowing in particular.
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