The Beyond is, first of all, for the coolie who settles, a confused poetics, pregnant with silence looks, unsaid words.…
What geographical regions constitute the Third World? Who are Third World women? Who defines and writes about the terms “Third…
Defining Representation Representation is a critical concept not only in postcolonial studies and academia, but in the larger cultural milieu.…
Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel, Robinson Crusoe, is a rich text for understanding the mechanisms of European colonialism and the relation between…
Ethnomusicology Bruno Nettl, a music and anthropology professor at the University of Illinois, lists some of the various definitions for…
One of the central modes of representation is essentialism. Diana Fuss says that essentialism is most commonly understood as…
The colonial presence is always ambivalent, split between its appearance as original and authoritative and its articulation as repetition and…
“By G – I do love the Ingles. G-d dammee, if I don’t love them better than the French by…
Introduction While she is best known as a postcolonial theorist, Gayatri Spivak describes herself as a “para-disciplinary, ethical philosopher”– though…
Biography Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian born writer of international renown, is an artist proficient in multiple genres. Soyinka has written…
“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 Assia Djebar was born Fatima-Zohra Imalayen in Cherchell, Algeria on August 4, 1936. She published her first novel, La Soif, under…
Biography John Maxwell Coetzee, better known as J.M. Coetzee, was born in South Africa to Afrikaner parents on February 9th,…
Biography Karen Blixen remains a complex figure in the writing and history of colonial Africa. Author, storyteller, and early colonizer,…
Basquiat and Postcoloniality On Basquiat, art critic Robert Farris Thompson writes, “What identifies Jean-Michel Basquiat as a major artist is…