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“The term postcolonial is misleading in its temporal implications. It should be more properly understood to imply the legacy of colonialism that is carried and continued into the present. While the structures of that institution appear to be dismantled, the global power differentials upheld by colonialism are still in place. Its discourse continues to mark the bell curves of knowledge produced in academic institutions both within the United States and elsewhere. The collective trauma of colonialism has neither been "worked through" in social identities nor redressed in political economies. It is in this context that the work of decolonization demands an individual and collective response, a social and political engagement.”
― Gurleen Grewal, Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle: The Novels of Toni Morrison