POSTCOLONIAL discourse is not anything new: back in 1978 with the publication of Edward Said’s book Orientalism ...

Where post-colonial theory holds a special place in the world of literature, post-colonial criticism – akin to analogous cultural studies – holds an exclusive viewpoint on literature and politics.

The University of Houston (UH) welcomes to campus Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, a world renowned literary theorist and postcolonial studies expert, to deliver a lecture at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 29 ...

After the so-called “end of the great narratives” – according to someone synonymous with the sunset of modernity – the theoretical frameworks founded on the concept of totality have given way to a ...

Literary criticism in Urdu might have been an imaginary landscape. Not too long ago, it was described by the eminent critic Kalimuddin Ahmed as almost non-existent, as imaginary as the point in ...

MURDOCH, H. Adlai and Anne DONADEY [eds.], Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies, University Press of Florida, December 2004, 304 p. ISBN: 0-8130-2776-4 This collection brings together ...

For all the debates that have roiled literature departments over the past 60 years, the history of the discipline itself is a source of surprising consensus. According to the standard narrative, ...

In a wide-ranging critique of black South African literature over a quarter of a century ago, Njabulo Ndebele criticised some Black Consciousness writers of the time for indulging in ...

There is a problematic relation between climate fiction and postcolonial criticism and writing. As a cli-fi author and critic from a post-colonial society, which is also exposed to face severe threats ...