The (in)visibility of Colonial Wars in Mia Couto and J. M. Coetzee

Colonialism is grounded in a play of appearances, where colonizers dictate the way to interpret phenomena and the very mode of their unveiling so as to justify their position. Thus, blatant socio-economic imbalances are recoded as the white man’s burden to civilize others. Outward impressions such a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vieira, Patrícia (author)
Format: bookPart
Language:eng
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10316/79484
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:estudogeral.sib.uc.pt:10316/79484