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…
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“In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian…
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As far as I am concerned, I no longer support notions of purity. Purity has become a thing of the…
Biography Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay in 1947, just months before the Partition of British India. His father, Ahmed,…
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Biography In 1929, Paule Marshall was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn, New York. She visited Barbados, her parents’ birthplace,…
Family History Li-Young Lee was born in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1957, the son of exiled Chinese parents. His mother came from…
“From the start I tried to deny my Pakistani self . . . it was a curse and I wanted to…
Take up the White Man’s burden– Send forth the best ye breed– Go, bind your sons to exile To serve…
Biography Jamaica Kincaid was born in 1949 as Elaine Potter Richardson on the island of Antigua. She lived with her…
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