TY - JOUR
T1 - Writing home/decolonizing text(s)
AU - Asher, Nina
PY - 2009/3/1
Y1 - 2009/3/1
N2 - The article draws on postcolonial and feminist theories, combined with critical reflection and autobiography, and argues for generating decolonizing texts as one way to write and reclaim home in a postcolonial world. Colonizers leave home to seek power and control elsewhere, and the colonized suffer loss of home as they know it. This dislocation from home is analyzed in terms of the material (outer), educational, and psychic (inner) reaches of colonization. Furthermore, under colonization, the self is split, alienated from itself, 'home' becomes rife with contradictions, and text(s) and education are shaped by Eurocentrism and 'us-them' binaries. Finally, implications for decolonization - including engaging and generating decolonizing text(s) - are discussed.
AB - The article draws on postcolonial and feminist theories, combined with critical reflection and autobiography, and argues for generating decolonizing texts as one way to write and reclaim home in a postcolonial world. Colonizers leave home to seek power and control elsewhere, and the colonized suffer loss of home as they know it. This dislocation from home is analyzed in terms of the material (outer), educational, and psychic (inner) reaches of colonization. Furthermore, under colonization, the self is split, alienated from itself, 'home' becomes rife with contradictions, and text(s) and education are shaped by Eurocentrism and 'us-them' binaries. Finally, implications for decolonization - including engaging and generating decolonizing text(s) - are discussed.
KW - Colonization
KW - Curriculum
KW - Decolonization
KW - Pedagogy
KW - Postcolonialism
KW - Theory
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U2 - 10.1080/01596300802643033
DO - 10.1080/01596300802643033
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:61649127551
VL - 30
SP - 1
EP - 13
JO - Discourse
JF - Discourse
SN - 0159-6306
IS - 1
ER -