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.

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 ...

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, ...

Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature,fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting newagendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history offeminist ...