Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (36 Seiten, 559 KB)
Dissertation note:
Bachelorarbeit Universität Potsdam 2022
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
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Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
In its practical outlook, the interdisciplinary-driven colonial discourse theory is often criticized for its totalizing tendencies regarding the structure of the exam-ined discourse and the power relations prevailing in this framework. As a result of this structural totalization, the concerned subjects got disempowered and de-graded to mere passive objects incapable of raising their voices within the dis-course. Based on this justified criticism, this thesis investigates the role colonial subjects played in the emergence, the distribution, as well as in questioning and critiquing of the colonial discourse during the initial phase of British colonialism in West Africa. The focal point lies on three themes relevant to the period be-tween 1874 and 1914: The Ashanti-Wars, the creation of an educational system, and the issue of the so-called "Europeanized Africans." Newspapers published by the colonial elite serve as the central source material in order to reconstruct Afri-can perspectives on these subjects. First, the discursive ...
DOI:
10.25932/publishup-57524
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-575241
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