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  1. Redefining the Postcolonial Identity Through the Deconstruction

    become flat, one-dimensional characters in reality and in literature. Adichie's attempt to counter essentialization through the multiplicity in her novels is compelling to me. The depth and scope with which she examines the postcolonial experience allows us to attend to each component of the postcolonial identity separately and as a collective.

  2. Postcolonial Studies

    Postcolonial Studies; Postcolonial Studies. Affiliated Faculty. photo of Denise Cruz. Full-time Faculty. ... PhD Student. Research Interests. African American and African Diaspora. ... The Department of English And Comparative Literature 602 Philosophy Hall, MC4927 1150 Amsterdam Ave · New York, NY 10027. Phone. 212.854.3215. Follow Us

  3. Postcolonial Studies

    Staff supervise research in the following areas: African literature in English and in translation, Caribbean literature, African-American and Native American literatures, Australian literature, New Zealand and South Pacific literature since 1800, Indian and South-East Asian literature in English and in translation, middle-eastern literature and Mediterranean literature, postcolonial women ...

  4. UCLA

    Edouard Duval-Carrié "Dambalah Le Pont" Postcolonial theory has transformed literary studies in the past three decades. By foregrounding how colonialism has radically altered the globe, this critical lens has provided flexible methodologies for engaging the literary production of empire, colonial and anti-colonial discourse, and the literature of current and former colonies in Africa ...

  5. The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies

    Graham Huggan is Chair of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures in the School of English at the University of Leeds (UK). His publications include The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins (2001), Australian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism (2007), and most recently, with Helen Tiffin, Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment (2010).

  6. Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction

    Introduction to the most recent debates and developments in Postcolonial Studies; Unique integrative approach that treats theory and literature as equally involved in the elaboration and reflection of the postcolonial condition; Introduction and Coda signposting major trends in the field; Sections on keywords like empire, nation, hybridity, etc.

  7. Post-Colonial Literature

    This page provides guidance specifically related to post-colonial literature. Visit the English research guide, also linked from this guide's home page, for additional resources. This guide, and many of the resources described within, presents three spellings for the course topic: post-colonialism; postcolonialism; post colonialism

  8. Postcolonial and World Literatures

    At any one time around 18 doctoral students on average research in the area, on topics ranging from South East Asian literature through to Caribbean aesthetics. Started by Professor Robert J. C. Young in the 1990s, the renamed "Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminars" take place at Wadham College.

  9. Contemporary Postcolonial Literature, Reader-Response, and Reception

    This thesis explores the reading and reception of contemporary postcolonial literatures. It develops an innovative theory of reading postcolonial literatures, which views reading as dialectically material and textual, as affective, and as ethical and political. This theory democratises the reading of postcolonial literatures. It legitimises a greater variety of reading-positions as compatible ...

  10. Postcolonialism

    Postcolonial studies has been, first and mostly, a critical maneuver nurtured in literature departments: it has placed under scrutiny the allegiances of literary texts to the ideological systems that were the backbone of the imperial enterprise, investigating the relationship between literature and society, literature and knowledge, literature ...

  11. PDF Doctoral Reading List Postcolonial Literature

    Postcolonial Literature All examinees will be tested over List A and any two [2] lists of their choosing from lists B through I. List A Core List CLR James, The Black Jacobins Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth Edward Said, Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism Ashcroft, Griffith, et al. The Empire Writes Back

  12. "Refugee Literature": What postcolonial theory has to say

    Refugee literature and arts in Europe and the USA are not a "scandal" (Farrier Citation 2011) for postcolonial studies but indeed have a lot to say with regard to the violence and unevenness of the current world order. It is, therefore, urgent for postcolonial scholars to respond to what I define as a refugee poetics and aesthetics by ...

  13. Postgraduates

    Since the Group's inception, a number of students have completed PhDs on topics in postcolonial literature. Topics have included: ... There is a lively and supportive postgraduate research culture at the Open University, and applications to study for a PhD in Postcolonial Literatures are warmly invited.

  14. Ph.D. in Literature

    The course of study balances coverage of national literary traditions with innovative methods and topics such as literature and science; literature and environment; translation; gender and sexuality studies; and critical race studies. ... • Postcolonial Literature • Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1792) • Romanticism ...

  15. (PDF) Analysis of Postcolonialism Literature: A ...

    Postcolonial Literature; Article PDF Available. Analysis of Postcolonialism Literature: A Bibliometric Study from 1900 to 2017. ... in her 1990 work The Post-Colonial Critic (Ashcroft et al. 1998).

  16. MPhil/PhD in Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies

    In addition to generic methods training, MPhil/PhD students in the CCLPS are required to attend a weekly Research Training Seminar in the disciplines of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Studies as well as in interdisciplinary methods and methodologies in term one and two.

  17. Postcolonial, Race, Diaspora and Ethnic Studies

    Postcolonial, Race, Diaspora and Ethnic Studies. As teachers and scholars working in postcolonial studies, critical race studies, American multi-ethnic studies and minority literatures, we study the way that literary and cultural production is shaped by—and in turn shapes—discourses and practices around empire, anti-colonialism, indigeneity, diaspora, race and ethnicity.

  18. Research Guides: English: Global and Postcolonial Literature

    Below are the most helpful databases for finding relevant articles for global literature and postcolonial literature topics. MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Subjects covered include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts.

  19. Recent PhD Dissertations

    Recent PhD Dissertations Terekhov, Jessica (September 2022) -- "On Wit in Relation to Self-Division" ... "Tragic Resistance: Decolonization and Disappearance in Postcolonial Literature" Glover, Eric (May 2017) - "By and About: An Antiracist History of the Musicals and the Antimusicals of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston"

  20. PhD Reading List

    Postcolonial Resources; PhD Reading List; PhD Reading List Masood Raja 2020-01-29T13:56:23-06:00. Postcolonialism: PhD Exams Reading List Primary Texts. African Authors. ... You might also want to take a look at some of my postcolonial literature courses. This website is in NOT affiliated with my employer.

  21. postcolonial literature PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

    We have 6 postcolonial literature PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships. Show more Show all . More Details . PhD at the University of London Institute in Paris. University of London, School of Advanced Study. Undertaking doctoral research allows you to develop in-depth knowledge, while making a meaningful contribution to your chosen field.

  22. Postcolonial and Global Literature

    We welcome applications to study topics that complement our current research. Current/recent research projects. The Representation and Self-representation of Anglo-Indians in Literature: 1880 to the Present; The impact of participating in British counterinsurgency campaigns on British armed forces personnel, 1945-1975 - an interdisciplinary ...

  23. Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Colonies in literature ...

    The subjectivity of the postcolonial literary theorist and the self-imposed parameters restrict the interpretation of the colonial and postcolonial literature. The aforementioned progress defined by improved standards of health, education and social justice is lacking in presence in both the postcolonial literature and the accompanying literary ...