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AILit Crit for Dummies! Is back after a short hiatus 💭📚🤍
Today we are discussing Post-Colonial Theory. Postcolonial theory looks at how the histories of colonialism CONTINUE to shape culture, politics, literature, and identity long after formal empires end. It asks who gets to speak, whose knowledge is valued, and how power still operates through language, representation, borders, and institutions. When we read texts through a postcolonial lens, we’re paying attention to silenced voices, uneven power relations, and the ways colonial logics get reproduced (even in places that claim to be “neutral” or “universal”).
As I mention in the video, the term postcolonial is also contested. Calling it “post” can suggest that colonialism is over, finished, safely in the past. For many communities, that simply isn’t true. Economic exploitation, racial hierarchies, cultural domination, and political control persist in new forms. So postcolonial theory isn’t about what comes after colonialism. It’s about living with its ongoing consequences, and learning how to name, resist, and rethink them.
Like I said, Colonialism/Post-Colonialism by Ania Loomba is a great introductory work for Post-colonial theory. Writers including Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Arundhati Roy, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, alongside theorists like Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, and Homi K. Bhabha are fantastic for reading post-colonial works. They often "write back" to the colonial center, reclaiming narratives and challenging Eurocentric perspectives
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