Postcolonial Reading in a Posthuman Context: Explicating the Elements of Subversion and Resistance in Arkady Martines A Memory Called Empire

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Dr. Indrajit Patra

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The present article shall endeavor to study Arkady Martines debut novel A Memory Called Empire (2019) from a postcolonial perspective to show how in a Trans/Posthuman culture, technology can be used to evolve effective instruments of resistance to counter the hegemonic, imperial and colonizing tendencies of the ruling power. This study shall adopt a multi-theoretical perspective to accomplish this task in which ideas and theories like Baudrillards Simulacra and Simulation, machinic autopoietic of Guattari, a biotechnologically mediated vitalist materialist approach towards machinic agencies by Rosi Braidotti, mindfile, mindware and mindclone by Martine Rothblatt, Ngugi wa Thiong'os ideas on cultural and linguistic imperialism and Homi Bhabhas double vision will inform and influence the overarching theoretical framework of the study.

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