Good News about Future Postcolonial Webinars
Postcolonial Webinars: Future Plans First of all, I would like to apologize to all of you who had trouble accessing my Postcolonial Webinars livestream on Spivak's "Can the Subaltern [...]
A Memorable Visit to GCU, Faisalabad
Introduction Receiving the GCUF shield from VC Dr. Shahid Kamal. Also in the picture, DR. Mazhar Hayat, Dean Social Sciences About a month ago, I had announced [...]
Monthly Summary of Articles, July 2019
Monthly Summary, July 2019 We are adding this monthly summary of Postcolonial Space, as the frequency of our blog posts has increased. The point is to provide every month, [...]
Postcolonialism and Neoliberalism: My Two Forthcoming Talks in Pakistan
Public Talks on Postcolonialism and Neoliberalism I am delighted to share that if all goes according to plan, in August I will be delivering two public talks on topics [...]
Using Grammarly for Scholarly Writing
Introduction Today I want to write about using Grammarly, the grammar aid program, for scholarly writing. As a scholar of postcolonial studies, even though most of my published work [...]
“The Dragon Can’t Dance” Reading Notes
Introduction Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance is one of the finest Postcolonial novels set in the postcolonial Trinidad. Lovelace, in my opinion, is a chronicler of the Afro-Trnidadian [...]
“The Joys of Motherhood” Reading Notes
Introduction Buchi Emecheta is indubitably one of the most prominent female voices of postcolonial Africa. I have taught her The Joys of Motherhood in several of my classes over [...]
Teaching Postcolonialism in Pakistan
For me, teaching postcolonialism, both theory and literature, to Pakistani graduate students is an act of shattering stereotypes, and an experience in introducing counter-narratives. I start teaching postcolonialism with [...]
Social Media and the Postcolonial Nation-State
Introduction Social media, in my opinion, are crucial to creating a more complex and egalitarian public sphere in the neoliberal postcolonial spaces. While growing consciousness of nationalist identities and [...]
Postcolonial Space: Actual Costs of Running a “Free” Website
Introduction Since 2002, Postcolonial Space has been, as stated on our Landing Page, a free resource for scholars and students of Postcolonialism. I can say without a doubt that [...]