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 ...

Literary criticism in Urdu might have been an imaginary landscape. Not too long ago, it was described by the eminent critic Kalimuddin Ahmed as almost non-existent, as imaginary as the point in ...