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Language is a key concern in postcolonial literary studies. This pertains particularly to the difficult relation between the (literary) use of languages of the colonizers (e. g., English, French, etc.) and Indigenous languages (Yoruba, Punjabi, etc.). Should postcolonial literature employ the language of the colonizer at all, and if so, how? And how does language use interrelate with the social and political arena in postcolonial projects?
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Bartels, A., Eckstein, L., Waller, N., Wiemann, D. (2019). Interlude: Language. In: Postcolonial Literatures in English. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05598-9_4
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