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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...