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-Trinidadian culture and traditions, just as V. S. Naipual, another Trinidadian [...]
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 the years and it has been a great aid in [...]
Introduction Devil on the Cross (1980) is one of the finest critiques of national elite of Kenya and their (former) colonial masters, the International financiers and bankers who still pull the strings in Ngugi’s imagined Kenya. Devil on the [...]
Introduction A fine Balance was published in 1995 and is probably one of the best novels about India and everyday struggles of average Indian citizens during the early stages of liberalization/ privatization of the Indian economy. In other words, [...]
Introduction The White Tiger and Neoliberalism In this brief article I intend to read Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger in the light of some insights about neoliberalism as discussed by Franco Berardi. In his celebrated book, The Soul at Work, [...]