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.

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 ...

After the so-called “end of the great narratives” – according to someone synonymous with the sunset of modernity – the theoretical frameworks founded on the concept of totality have given way to a ...

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 ...

MURDOCH, H. Adlai and Anne DONADEY [eds.], Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies, University Press of Florida, December 2004, 304 p. ISBN: 0-8130-2776-4 This collection brings together ...

Biodun Jeyifo was no ordinary professor.  He was not a middling in global intellectual circles, but a towering colossus with world wide validation. His passing February 11 was a great loss to the ...