Postcolonial criticism
Articles
- Good Readers and Good Citizens: Literature, Media and the Nation
Parses the difference between nationalism and the nation. 'To show the oppressive, homogenising and frankly racist operations of nationalism—to suggest why historically and as a…
1 October 1999 - Review of The Transformation of Political Identity from Commonwealth through Postcolonial Literature by Lamia Tayeb
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, edited by Nathanael O'Reilly
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
A review of The Circle and the Spiral: A Study of Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Maori Literature by Eva Rask Knudsen, which critiques postcolonial…
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 The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin.
The Empire Writes Back is a catchy proposition, a pop-cult title sitting on top of a much heavier subtitle: theory and practice in post-colonial literatures…
1 May 1992 - 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’
About a decade ago, Howard Felperin and a few others were pointing out quite correctly that Australian literary scholars had generally ignored modern critical theory…
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
- J. J. Healy
- Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
- Victoria Kuttainen
- Veronica Kelly
- Ken A. Stewart
- John Thieme