(Source: Wikimedia Commons) He got down to work, to the task of settling the fate Of millions. The maps at…
Biography Maria Mies is a Marxist feminist scholar who is renowned for her theory of capitalist-patriarchy, which recognizes third world…
Why Women Began To Travel Women began to travel in the nineteenth century for many personal and political reasons. Some…
The “Public” and “Private” Realms of Political Personhood Colonial powers brought with them daunting philosophical, theological, naval and mercantile traditions…
The knife cut down the guardian of the village today. Now he is dead and gone. Before the village was…
Chicana Defined “Chicana” refers to women of Mexican descent who are born and/or raised in the United States. Although the…
Introduction While she is best known as a postcolonial theorist, Gayatri Spivak describes herself as a “para-disciplinary, ethical philosopher”– though…
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…
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 Bapsi Sidhwa is Pakistan’s leading diasporic writer. She has produced four novels in English that reflect her personal experience…
Huda Shaarawi (1879-1947), a feminist nationalist activist, is considered to be a central figure in early twentieth century Egyptian feminism.…
Biography Simone Schwarz-Bart is an internationally known writer in the company of Guadeloupean novelists Maryse Condé and Myriam Warner-Vieyra. Born…
Biographical Overview On March 24, 1855, Olive Emilie Albertina was born the ninth of twelve children to Gottlob and Rebecca…
Biography Egyptian writer and feminist Nawal el Saadawi was born in 1931 in the village of Kafir Tahla. Her father,…
The information provided on this site for Arundhati Roy is spread across multiple entries. Please click on the following entries for…
Nigerian Literature – Cries of Protest Nigerian literature often expresses the struggles of a nation that has survived the exploitation of colonialism…
Introduction “She is either the bravest or most foolish person I’ve ever met,” a friend of Nasrin’s is quoted as…
Biography Bharati Mukherjee was born on July 27, 1940 to wealthy parents, Sudhir Lal and Bina Mukherjee in Kolkata (formerly…
“I know being a woman for me for a long time was being less, being excluded, being somehow cheap, being…
Coal I is the total black, being spoken from the earth’s inside. There are many kinds of open how a…
Biography Jamaica Kincaid was born in 1949 as Elaine Potter Richardson on the island of Antigua. She lived with her…
Biography Much postcolonial fiction available to English-speaking readers is written by native historical witnesses; that is to say, the author…
Biography Keri Hulme, a New Zealand native, was born on March 9, 1947, in Christchurch, New Zealand. She is the…
Biography Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was born into a Bengali Muslim upper-class family in the small village of Pairaband in the district of…
Biography Merle Hodge was born in 1944, in Curepe, Trinidad, the daughter of an immigration officer. She received both her elementary and…
“Love is so powerful, it’s like unseen flowers under your feet as you walk.” – Bessie Head, A Question of Power…
Biography On July 21, 1944 in Yaba near Lagos, Nigeria, Buchi Emecheta was born to Jeremy Nwabudike and Alice Okwuekwu…
Biography Assia Djebar was born Fatima-Zohra Imalayen in Cherchell, Algeria on August 4, 1936. She published her first novel, La Soif, under…
Biography Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her work is widely known, as she has been published…
Biography Mahasweta Devi was born in 1926 in the city of Dacca (now Dhaka) in East Bengal (modern-day Bangladesh). As…
Biography Recognized as one of India’s foremost poets, Kamala Das was born Kamala Madhavikutty on March 31, 1934 in Malabar in…
Biography Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1969. Her father immigrated to the United States just 2 years later…
Biography In 1959, Tsitsi Dangarembga was born in Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe, in the town of Mutoko. She spent her early childhood,…
Biography Jill Ker Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia in 1934. She resided in the Australian outback…
Biography Eavan Boland was born in Dublin in 1944 and lived in Ireland until she was six years old. At…
Biography Due to her first novel Anita Rau Badami was considered one of the newest writers in the vibrant field…
Biography Although Julia Alvarez was born in New York City on March 27, 1950, her family moved to the Dominican…
Biography Isabel Allende is one of Latin America’s foremost female writers. Through translation, her work has received acclaim in the…
“I no longer feel inclined to make comments on my own work, which I feel should speak for itself.” (qtd.…
“Colonial racism is no different from any other racism.” – Frantz Fanon A Need To Talk Back While African American…