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Postcolonial literature is the literature by people from formerly colonized countries, originating from all continents except Antarctica. Postcolonial literature often addresses the problems and consequences of the decolonization of a country, especially questions relating to the political and cultural independence of formerly subjugated people, and themes such as racialism and colonialism.
The Journal of Postcolonial Writing (from 1973 to 2004 titled World Literature Written in English) is a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing work that examines the interface between the economic forces commodifying culture and postcolonial writing of the modern era. The journal also includes interviews and biographies of postcolonial ...
Postcolonialism (also post-colonial theory) is the critical academic study of the cultural, political and economic consequences of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands.
Map of Decolonized Countries. Special Committee on Decolonization. United Nations. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures aims to give a theoretical account of an extensive range of post-colonial texts and how these texts relate to a greater number of issues relating to post-colonial culture.
The terms subaltern and subaltern studies entered the vocabulary of post-colonial studies through the works of the Subaltern Studies Group of historians who explored the political-actor role of the common people who constitute the mass population, rather than re-explore the political-actor roles of the social and economic elites in the history ...
On the Postcolony is a collection of critical essays by Cameroonian philosopher and political theorist Achille Mbembe.The book is Mbembe's most well-known work and explores questions of power and subjectivity in postcolonial Africa.
This is the category for postcolonial literature. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. B. Books by Frantz Fanon (4 P) N.
Dalit literature is a genre of Indian ... In the colonial and post-colonial ... worked to build a new casteless Tamil society based on his research on ancient Tamil ...