Of the 12 students in Col. John Nelson's Postcolonial Literature and Theory course, three of them are related. Cadets Ryan, Celiné and Whitney Gunderman don't have any other siblings, were all ...

I n the essays my students write, I have begun to notice a common pattern. They are structured almost like Aesop’s fables. A moral seems necessary at the end — a kind of wrapping up, whichever way one ...

Ambreen Hai specializes in Anglophone postcolonial literature from South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and 19th–20th century literature of the British Empire. Additional research and teaching ...

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While crowds admire South Asian and African novelists like Rushdie or Achebe, American readers academic and otherwise don't care enough about verse from developing nations. Jahan Ramazani (Poetry of ...

Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Houston, Texas. His first poetry collection, “The Understudy’s Handbook,” was published in 2020 by the Washington Writers’ Publishing ...

Ralph Pordzik. The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia: A Comparative Introduction to the Utopian Novel in New English Literatures. New York: Lang, 2001. 199 pp. $53.95 hc. Until recently, utopian ...

Her 1989 book, “Meatless Days,” is viewed as an important work of postcolonial literature. By Neil Genzlinger Sara Suleri Goodyear, a scholar who vividly evoked her upbringing in Pakistan in “Meatless ...