Postcolonial criticism
Articles
- Good Readers and Good Citizens : Literature, Media and the Nation
In recent decades nationalism has sometimes been classed in the same category of immoral behaviours as racism and sexism. Reading from the historical and literary…
1 October 1999 - Review of The Transformation of Political Identity from Commonwealth through Postcolonial Literature
This is a well-intentioned and sometimes well-written study, a book that one wants to like, coming as it does from a place that has not…
1 October 2008 - Is Australia (still) Postcolonial (yet)?: Review of Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature.
Almost ten years ago, a spate of edited books in Canada by the academics Laura Moss and Cynthia Sugars brought important insights from the then-vibrant…
1 June 2012 - How Newness (Not) Comes into the World : Eva Rask Knudsen’s The Circle and the Spiral
Perhaps one of the most remarkable features of postcolonial criticism is its seemingly endless capacity for self-critique. Matching, if not eclipsing, the charges laid against…
1 October 2006 - Review of 'Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment' by Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin
Was it just a matter of time? Do all political criticisms eventually meet? These musings are prompted by Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin's new book…
1 May 2011 - Review of Transgressive Itineraries: Postcolonial Hybridizations of Dramatic Realism, by Marc Maufort.
Realism, as this useful comparative study reminds us, is the most problematical and paradoxical of dramatic styles. As an aesthetic, theatrical or even political programme…
1 May 2004 - Australian Criticism in ‘Transition’1 May 1993
- Cooper, Cather, Prichard, 'Pioneer': The Chronotope of Settler Colonialism
This essay considers three novels which each bear the word ‘pioneer’ in their titles: James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers (1823), Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! (1913)…
1 June 2016
Contributors
- David Carter
- Simone Drichel
- Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
- Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
- Victoria Kuttainen
- Veronica Kelly
- Ken A. Stewart
- John Thieme