From Orientalsim to Postcoloniality Journal Article

Papers presented ranged from diversity and nationalism in the postcolonial context, postcolonialsim and religious studies, African-American writing and social activism, colonial romanticism and white supremacy, and postcolonial liter ature and film in English, among other topics. In the first “Black American Writing and Social Activism” workshop, Fredrik Sunnermark (senior lecturer, Cultural Studies, University West, Troll hättan, Sweden) presented “Sameness and Difference: The Paradoxical Meaning of the ‘Negro’ in the Rhetoric of Martin Luther King, Jr. This session featured an intriguing look back into the history and process of de-colonization in the Middle and Far East by Major Simon Williams (retired, Sweden), who had served as a British army officer in the Persian Gulf and focused on the significance and impact of this process on the local communities. The session ended with an animated presentation by Osita Ezeliora (instructor, School of Liter ature and Language Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) on the “Subject of the Other: Location of the Self in Zoë Wicomb’s Post-Apartheid Post-colony.