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"the second is to begin to erode the colonialist ideology by which that past had been devalued."
"'In such statements as these we note immediately that "the Arab" or "Arabs" have an aura of apartness, definiteness, and collective self-consistency [my italics] such as to wipe out any traces of individual Arabs with narratable life Histories'"
"postcolonial writers seeing themselves as using primarily African or Asian forms, supplemented with European-derived influences, rather than as working primarily within European genres like the novel and merely adding to them a degree of exotic Africanisation. All postcolonial literatures, it might be said, seem to make this transition."

“Chapter 10 Postcolonial Criticism.” Beginning Theory: an Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, by Peter Barry, Manchester University Press, 2019.