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, ...

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.

Spivak, a University Professor in the Humanities, is widely recognized for her groundbreaking contributions to postcolonial theory, feminist critique, and literary studies. Her influential work, ...

As someone who is interested in Muslim novels—by which I mean novels written by Muslims about Muslims—I always feel a scholarly tug towards Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album (Scribner, 1995) when ...

POSTCOLONIAL discourse is not anything new: back in 1978 with the publication of Edward Said’s book Orientalism the postcolonial studies had emerged on the academic scene with a bang. But in Pakistan ...

There is a problematic relation between climate fiction and postcolonial criticism and writing. As a cli-fi author and critic from a post-colonial society, which is also exposed to face severe threats ...