Cultura

Postcolonial Discourse and Language Politics: A Linguistic Analysis of English Literary Texts

VOLUME 23, 2026

The Role of Targeted Infra-popliteal Endovascular Angioplasty to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using the Angiosome Model: A Systematic Review

VOLUME 6, 2023

Ayesha Junaid
Dr.Zafar Iqbal Bhatti
Dr Shamsa Malik

Abstract

The corpus of the postcolonial English literature that has been created at South Asia is a linguistically and ideologically complex space, living with the remnants of the colonial subjection still bound to the modern struggles over identity and power conditioning and representational measures. Brought in traditionally as the lingua franca of colonial rule and cultural control, English continues to play a confusing role in the postcolonial environment, as both a medium of interaction with the outside world and a remnant of colonial oppression. The current investigation is a review and critique of postcolonial discourse and language politics that deconstructs the chosen English literary texts by these writers: Chinua Achebe, Hanif Kureishi and Mohsin Hamid. The article uses postcolonial theory, Critical Discourse Analysis, and sociolinguistic approach to examine how the following writers steal English and transform it through the practices defined as code switching, creating lexicons, syntactic deviation, and narrative transformations. It is hypothesized that South Asian and Pakistani writers take an action to transform the English language to indicate resistance, hybridity and localized identities, therefore, challenging the concept of linguistic imperialism and undermining the dominance of standardized English.

Keywords : postcolonial discourse, language politics, Pakistani English, South Asian literature, and hybridity and critical discourse analysis..
Erin Saricilar
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.

Abstract

Atherosclerotic disease significantly impacts patients with type 2 diabetes, who often present with recalcitrant peripheral ulcers. The angiosome model of the foot presents an opportunity to perform direct angiosome-targeted endovascular interventions to maximise both wound healing and limb salvage. A systematic review was performed, with 17 studies included in the final review. Below-the-knee endovascular interventions present significant technical challenges, with technical success depending on the length of lesion being treated and the number of angiosomes that require treatment. Wound healing was significantly improved with direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty, as was limb salvage, with a significant increase in survival without major amputation. Indirect angioplasty, where the intervention is applied to collateral vessels to the angiosomes, yielded similar results to direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty. Applying the angiosome model of the foot in direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty improves outcomes for patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers in terms of primary wound healing, mean time for complete wound healing and major amputation-free survival.
Keywords : Diabetic foot ulcer, angiosome, angioplasty