Resources for Final Exam: What is Postcolonialism?: HERE Heart of Darkness (Summary): HERE Heart of Darkness, Additional Resources: HERE Achebe, “An Image of Africa,” HERE Frantz Fanon, “ Black Skin White Masks,”: HERE ---. “From Wretched of the [...]
Announcements Weekly Livestream Links: Tuesday, October 6: (3:30-4:50): (I have set up our meetings on ZOOM. Please log in to UNT Canvas and click on today's zoom meeting under your course. Texts and Discussion for the Current Week [...]
Resources for Final Exam: What is Postcolonialism?: HERE Heart of Darkness (Summary): HERE Heart of Darkness, Additional Resources: HERE Achebe, “An Image of Africa,” HERE Frantz Fanon, “ Black Skin White Masks,”: HERE ---. “From Wretched of the [...]
I just wanted to share that i have decided to offer weekly webinars through my Youtube Channel every week. My plan is to offer focused webinars of postcolonialism, literary theory and other topics of interest to you all. Tentative Timings [...]
Introduction In the last few decades, postcolonialism has emerged as a fascinating field of study within the English departments. As a field, postcolonial studies combines a deep understanding of the structures of literary production in the former European colonies [...]
Multidisciplinary Perspectives of Islam after 9/11 Even though Said’s Orientalism critiqued the western view of Islam as a fixed force, Muslims were seen as a distant danger living in faraway lands. The discourse of Neo-Orientalism, on the other hand, represents [...]
Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. 1966. London/ New York: Norton, 1999. Introduction Published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea is an interventionist novel that tells the silenced story of Bertha Mason, the "mad woman in the attic" from Charlotte Bronte's 1847 [...]
Most of you are probably aware of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies (http://pakistaniaat.org), which I had launched in 2009. A few years ago, after a long hiatus, we have started republishing the journal with a few modifications. The [...]
The Power and Price of Dissent Dissent is a sentiment or philosophy of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea or an entity. The term's antonyms include agreement, consensus and consent, when one party agrees to a proposition made by [...]
As some of you might have noticed, I have recently started posting long and short videos related to postcolonial studies and literary theory on Youtube. My purpose in this venture is to make available whatever meager expertise I have as [...]