Biography Partha Chatterjee was born in Calcutta in 1947. After finishing a bachelor’s degree in political science at the University…
Biography Maria Mies is a Marxist feminist scholar who is renowned for her theory of capitalist-patriarchy, which recognizes third world…
Introduction While she is best known as a postcolonial theorist, Gayatri Spivak describes herself as a “para-disciplinary, ethical philosopher”– though…
Introduction Born in 1853 in Hertfordshire, England, Cecil Rhodes was the fifth son of Reverend Francis William Rhodes. Although Rhodes…
The power to create and innovate remains the greatest guarantee of respect and recognition. (Nettleford Mirror 227) Biography: The Formation of a Caribbean…
Biography Ashis Nandy is a prolific political psychologist, sociologist, and cultural critic. Nandy has also coauthored a number of human…
Introduction Born in Tunisia, a Jew in a predominately Muslim colony, Albert Memmi writes that he was “sort of a…
Biography Born in France of parents from Corsica, Octave Mannoni (1899-1989) belonged to a small group of critics who managed…
Introduction Unlike the United States, China regards its cinema as a high art rather than a form of entertainment. According…
Intellectual History in a Transatlantic Frame While some critics annotate the social and cultural impact that time-space compression has on…
Biography Born on September 15, 1929, in New York, New York, Murray Gell-Mann had a passion for learning that was…
Biography Frantz Fanon’s relatively short life yielded two potent and influential statements of anti-colonial revolutionary thought, Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The…
Biography “The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that positions be taken on…
A critic of the way sinologists, Orientalists, and Western intellectuals have traditionally approached China and the “East,” Rey Chow refuses…
Biography Kuan-Hsing Chen grew up in Taiwan and completed his college education there before he went to the U.S. for…
Works Bahri has a particular interest in aesthetics, and has worked to develop this area in postcolonial studies. In Native Intelligence:…
Biography Born in 1942 in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas to sixth-generation Mexicanos, this self-described “Chicana, Tejana, working-class,…
Biography Benedict Richard O’Gorman Anderson was born on August 26, 1936 in Kunming, China to James O’Gorman and Veronica Beatrice…
Biography Egyptian writer and feminist Nawal el Saadawi was born in 1931 in the village of Kafir Tahla. Her father,…
Biography Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a Kenyan writer of Gikuyu descent, began a very successful career writing in English before turning to…
Introduction Theodor Adorno was a philosopher, critic, and theorist who generated a vast body of works on many aspects of…