Introduction: Postcolonial Legalism

Introduction: Hybridity in Contemporary Postcolonial Theory

in postcolonial studies with the exigencies that led to the founding of this academic discipline itself. Such exigencies arose from recognizing and studying situations of stark inequalities, which were held in place and legitimated by the various machinations of, or inherited from, colonialism. That is, in unpacking and examining hybridity today in some of its theoretical versions as well as sp...

"And They Were Silent": Reflections on Legalism

Globalization and Postcolonial States

Ireland and Postcolonial Theory

The question at the heart of Ireland and Postcolonial Theory was Ireland a colony? is a simple one. How it is answered, however, has enormous repercussions for understanding just about every aspect of Irish history and society: culture, economics, politics, demographics and a whole array of everyday rituals, ranging from patterns of speech through the inhabiting of physical space to daily praye...

What is Postcolonial Literature ?

In a broad sense, postcolonial literature is writing which has been “affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonization to the present day” (Ashcroft et al, 2). In India’s case, this includes novels, poetry, and drama which were written both during and after the British Raj or “Reign,” which came to a formal conclusion with Indian Independence in August 1947. Although writing from...