“Post-colonial discourse”. The global contexts
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-9-176-189
Abstract
This article presents some theoretical as well as historiographical reflections concerning new Russian monograph “Africa: Post-Colonial Discourse” (Moscow, 2020).
The aim of this study is to comprehend some problems of the basic contemporary macro-historical studies, as following: expanding the competence of the present-day source-based global studies; more comprehensive understanding of macro-historical phenomenon of slavery and – wider – of compulsive labor as one of the most tragic and unjust universals of global history; and perceiving of the imprescriptible role of inter-cultural as well as inter-civilizational codevelopment in possible humanization of global reality.
Post-colonial discourse hardly seems to be an exact solution of all the controversial problems of the XV–XXI centuries’, so deep and so painful. Nevertheless, it poses some basic questions of the History as such including questions of compulsion and violence in history as well as the question of hope for freedom and dignity as an ultima ratio of all the human cultural experience.
About the Author
E. B. Rashkovsky
Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Eugene B. Rashkovsky, Dr. of Sci. (History), professor
bld. 23, Profsoyuznaya St., Moscow, Russia, 117997
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Rashkovsky E.B. “Post-colonial discourse”. The global contexts. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2021;1(9(2)):176-189. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-9-176-189
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