Postcolonial Theory

Worlding

The term "worlding" was first introduced, in Postcolonial Studies, by Gayatri Spivak in her essay "The Rani of Simur: An Essay in Reading the Archive," where she explains how the colonized space is transformed as "the colonized space" (worlding) for [...]

By Masood Raja|2019-11-14T15:08:55-06:00May 2nd, 2019|Comments Off

Worldliness

Worldliness is theorized by Edward said and is the main theme of his work The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983), which was published after Orientalism. In the introductory parts of the book Said explains what he calls Secular [...]

By Masood Raja|2019-11-15T09:38:30-06:00May 2nd, 2019|Comments Off