Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social ...

Julia Obert, an associate professor in the University of Wyoming Department of English, has released her second book, “The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities: Urban Planning, Imperial Power, and ...

In the exhibition “Postcolonial?” the House of European History in Brussels is fully embracing the theme of decolonisation.

I n the essays my students write, I have begun to notice a common pattern. They are structured almost like Aesop’s fables. A moral seems necessary at the end — a kind of wrapping up, whichever way one ...

The question of whether Ukraine is postcolonial may seem an abstruse matter, one best left to scholars. Yet it raises some fundamental issues about the nature of Ukrainian politics. These issues ...

How do we center, in this postcolonial experience, not the perspective of the western European colonizer but the perspective of the indigenous, black, and people of color who were colonized? Even the ...

“Postcolonial” is a loaded term. It implies that something — a nation, an era — has undergone a political and psychological change, paving the way for a liberation from an outside force. Now, finally, ...

Kincaid’s new collection, Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974– is not charged so much with cementing any legacy (since that is well taken care of), though perhaps it will serve as a reminder of her ...

The postcolonial discourse in India has attempted to appropriate Tagore within its fold. But he cannot be appropriated by a single discourse, let alone by postcolonialism. His works, when keenly ...

This essay argues that India’s analytical under-engagement with the ideological dimensions of Iranian statecraft is not a policy failure but a theoretical one: a structural consequence of what I term ...