Postcolonial Studies
Race after Sartre
Examines Jean-Paul Sartre’s antiracist politics and his contributions to critical race theories, postcolonialism, and Africana existentialism.
Otherwise Occupied
Questions whether current theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us truly to engage the Other.
The Erotics of Corruption
A provocative retelling of the story of political corruption in the modern period.
Locating Race
Pinpoints the limits of many current globalization theories in challenging racial oppression, and argues instead for local and situated strategies for resisting racism and imperialism.
White Horizon
From explorers’ accounts to boys’ adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain.
Religion without Belief
Shows there is a strong religious impulse in postmodern literature and film.
From Kung Fu to Hip Hop
Explores the revolutionary potential of Bruce Lee and hip hop culture in the context of antiglobalization struggles and transnational capitalism.
Postcolonial Whiteness
Explores the undertheorized convergence of postcoloniality and whiteness.
Female Infanticide in India
Examines female infanticide in colonial and postcolonial India.
African Fiction and Joseph Conrad
Interrogates the "writing back to the center" approach to intertextuality and explores alternatives to it.
Muslim Narratives and the Discourse of English
Examines novels and short stories by Muslim authors who write in English.
Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture
Explores postcolonial discourse from the standpoint of feminism and writers in minority languages.
Relocating Agency
A postmodernist metacritical look at theories of African literature.
Colonialism Past and Present
Critiques lingering manifestations of colonialism in contemporary Latin American scholarship.
Life After the Soviet Union
Examines the political, social, and economic issues confronted by each of the newly independent republics in the Transcaucasus and Central Asian regions.
Postcolonial, Queer
Uses postcolonial theory to critique the globalization of gay culture.
Posts and Pasts
Deconstructs the field of postcolonial studies.
Textual Traffic
Examines travel narratives as a genre.
Reading on the Edge
Examines the notion of exile and hybrid cultural identity in Proust, Joyce, and Baldwin, with implications for our understanding of modernism and the modernist canon.
Colonialism and Cultural Identity
Explores diverse cultural identities, both theoretically and through concrete, specific interpretations of selected major texts from former British colonies.
Captive Bodies
Examines the film industry's fascination with bondage and captivity.
Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial
Six internationally renowned intellectuals are brought together in a cross-disciplinary dialogue that addresses rhetoric, writing, race, feminist theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory.
Order and Partialities
Looks at the political and cultural issues involved in teaching postcolonial literatures and theories.