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 and [...]
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 [...]
Description from Amazon Relying on a thorough understanding of the role of ideology, discourse, and framing, this volume discusses ISIS as an Islamist ideological organization, and examines its philosophical scaffolding within the material conditions produced by neoliberal capital. As Raja [...]
This is a brief lecture explaining Paulo Freire's discussion of the Banking Concept of Education. As one of the world's foremost theorist of education, Freire in his book, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," lays the foundations of what eventually becomes the [...]
Mostly derived from Linda Hutcheon's book A Poetics of Postmodernism, this lecture explains some of the important aspects of postmodernism and postmodern literature. Audio Lecture:
