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 my initial lectures focusing on an introduction to binaries of [...]
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 strengthening the national vision was crucial during the resistance against [...]
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 the site will remain a free and open access website [...]
Introduction What is Orientalism? This questions is often posed by the students of postcolonial studies. Published in 1978, Edward Said's Orientalism is easily one of the most influential academic books of 20th century. Even now, decades after its first publication, [...]
As you all know, postcolonial Space, because of its specific focus on postcolonial studies, has the potential to become an Authority Site. According to web sources, an authority site can be defined as follows: An authority site is a [...]
In one of his interviews, while speaking on the relevance of postcolonial studies, Dr. Raja said that the postcolonial world can understand their conflicts and issues better by reading and discussing postcolonial literatures. I endorse this point of view because [...]
I recently came across this publishing initiative on instagram. Since I found their project so fascinating, I requested the founders for more information so that I could lend them my support and introduce them to my readers. Launched [...]
Life in Academia This life in academia is actually my second career. I am a combat veteran who came to academic life after spending most of my youth in the Pakistan army. In the process I also made the [...]
About ten years ago, my former department went through a collective soul-searching in the process of defining our departmental mission. There were two competing visions of literary studies that became prominently mobilized during our faculty meetings and faculty retreats: one [...]
(Note: This is a modified version of an article published in Friday Times, Lahore) We often hear, in public and private conversations, that Pakistani culture and politics will become better with the increase in access to education. This is nothing [...]