Academic, scholarly, and critical articles on postcolonial poets, novelists, essayists, and travel writers of the twentieth century, who write in English: in Britain, the U.S., and throughout the world. All articles are open access and free.
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Aboul-Ela, Hosam. "Edward Said's Out of Place: criticism, polemic, and Arab American identity." Melus Dec. 2007
Adesanmi, Pius. "Of Postcolonial Entanglement and Durée: Reflections on the Francophone African Novel: Introduction: Afropessimism and temporality." On pessimism in and about Africa. Comparative Literature, Summer 2004
Bachmann-Medick, Doris. "Cultural Misunderstanding in Translation: Multicultural Coexistence and Multicultural Conceptions of World Literature," in EESE 7/1996
Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors (Oxford Univ. Press, 2005). Preview at Google Books.
Dunick, Lisa M.S.. "The silencing effect of canonicity: authorship and the written word in Amy Tan's novels." Melus, June, 2006
George, Rosemary Marangoly. The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-century Fiction (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996). Preview at Google Books.
George, Rosemary Marangoly. A review of The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth Century Fiction (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996). Reviewed in MELUS, Winter, 1999 by Carol Maloney (taken offline).
Henderson, Laretta. Ebony Jr! and "soul food": the construction of middle-class African American identity through the use of traditional southern foodways. Melus, Dec. 2007
Houston, Lynn Marie. "Making do": Caribbean foodways and the economics of postcolonial literary culture. Melus, Dec. 2007
Katrak, Ketu H. A review of "Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers of the Third World." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 26, 2 (Fall 2007). Reviewed by Gita Rajan.
Ludescher, Tanyss. "From nostalgia to critique: an overview of Arab American literature." Melus Dec. 2006
Marrouchi, Mustapha. Just look at that post-colonial shuffle! [West Indian novels in English]. College Literature, 22-JUN-07
Matzke, Christine and Susanne Muhleisen, eds. A brief summary of Postcolonial Postmortems; Crime Fiction From a Transcultural Perspective (Editions Rodopi, 2006). In Reference & Research Book News, August, 2006
Orfalea, Gregory. "The Arab American novel." Melus Dec. 2006
Poddar, Prem; Rajeev S. Patke; Lars Jensen. A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and Its Empires (Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2008). Preview at Google Books.
Pordzik, Ralph. "Fictions of Empire: Imperial Vision in George Gissing's Later Fiction, with special regard to Henry Ryecroft (1903)," EESE 8/2002
Powers, Peter Kerry. "Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates" (book review). MELUS, March, 2007
Prchal, Tim. "Reimagining the Melting Pot and the golden door: national identity in gilded age and progressive era literature." Melus, March 2007.
Singh, Amritjit and Peter Schmidt, eds. A review of Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature (Univ. of Mississippi Press, 2000). Reviewed in MELUS, Summer, 2003 by Tej N. Dhar.
Stammwitz, Kati. "'Turning the Telescope in the Other Direction': Four Interviews with Post-Colonial Travel Writers: Pico Iyer, Frank Delaney, Dan Jacobson, and Dervla Murphy," EESE 1/1999
Sohn, Stephen Hong . American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America. Melus, June 2007.
Templer, Bill. "American Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism a Century ago: its Discourse and Counterdiscourse in the Critical American Studies Classroom," EESE 2004.
Torres, Lourdes. "In the contact zone: code-switching strategies by Latino/a writers." Melus, March 2007.
Introductions to literary tradition by country. For Australia and New Zealand; for East and Southeast Asia; for India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka; for Africa. From The Poetry House project at St. Andrews Univ.
An overview of Postcolonial writers from Professor George Landow's Postcolonial Literature and Cultural Web, includes critical articles about authors, their themes, techniques, and their historical and cultural contexts
The Emory Univ. Postcolonial literature project provides introductory articles on many postcolonial authors along with lists of primary and secondary resources
An introduction to Postcolonial Studies, from Emory Univ. Professor Deepika Bahri
World Literature in English web site extensively covers the subject of postcolonial literature, from Fu Jen University in Taiwan
"After Iraq: Reframing Postcolonial Studies." Editorial by Priyamvada Gopal and Neil Lazarus. In New Formations 59
On the meaning of the term "postcolonial literature," by Dr. Paul Brians
"Some Issues in Postcolonial Theory." A professor's effort to define the meaning of postcolonial investigation, by John Lye
A deflating review of a recent book by an influential postcolonial theorist, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present," by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Reviewed in The New Statesman by Farrukh Dhondy
A bibliographic essay lists and briefly summarizes the influential studies and writers in the development of postcolonial thought. By T.V. Reed at Washington State Univ
O'Quinn, Daniel J. Introduction to "The Containment and Re-deployment of English India." Special Romantic Circles edition includes scholarly articles on this topic, November 2000
Bewell, Alan. A review of Bewell's Romanticism and Colonial Disease. Reviewed by Tim Fulford, Romanticism On the Net, 19 (August 2000)
Cobbett, William. A review of Cobbett's John Thelwall, Radicalism, Racism and Slavery: A Study in Burkean Parodics. Reviewed by Wood, Marcus in Romanticism On the Net, 15 (August 1999)
Fulford, Tim. "Blessed Bane: Christianity and Colonial Disease in Southey's Tale of Paraguay." Romanticism On the Net, 24 (November 2001)
Fulford, Tim and Peter J. Kitson, eds. A review of Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830. Reviewed by Wright, Julia M. in Romanticism On the Net, 17 (February 2000)
Hofkosh, Sonia and Alan Richardson, eds. A review of Romanticism, Race and Imperial Culture, 1780-1834. Reviewed by O'Quinn, Daniel. Romanticism On the Net, 11 (August 1998)
Makdisi, Saree. A review of Makdisi's, Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity. Reviewed by Wright, Julia M. in Romanticism On the Net, 15 (August 1999)
Persyn, Mary. "The Sublime Turn Away from Empire: Wordsworth's Encounter with Colonial Slavery, 1802," in Romanticism on the Net, 26 (2002)
Thomas, Helen. A review of Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000). Reviewed by Sophie Thomas, Romanticism on the Net, Issue 28, November 2002
Web site for the journal MELUS, published by The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, with special editions on postcolonialism, neo-colonialism, disaporas, postcolonial fictions, and Yorga Wangi: Postcolonialism and Feminism. Literaryhistory has not yet indexed these impressive articles. A typical article is Sue Kossew "'Women's Words': A Reading of J.M. Coetzee's Women Narrators." There are over 50 full-text articles available, along with access to the full text of scholarly books on postcolonial topics
Continuum, a thematically based cultural studies journal in Australia, from 1987-1994, cover topics related to Asian, Australian, and multiculturalism in general film, t.v., media studies. Articles are freely available online
The SOAS Literary Review publishes articles on all aspects of the literatures of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Published by the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Articles are freely available online
Jouvert: Journal of Postcolonial Studies, explores many facets of postcolonial thought. Published by the College of the Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State Univ. Articles are freely available online
Web site for Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature: A scholarly journal devoted to the study of women's literature of all periods and nationalities [Feminist and Women's Studies]
Griesbach, Daniel. "Resilience as resistance: representing Hispanic New Mexico to the federal writers' project in Lou Sage Batchen's Placitas stories." Melus March 2007
Marshall, Joanna Barszewska. "Boast now, chicken, tomorrow you'll be stew": pride, shame, food, and hunger in the memoirs of Esmeralda Santiago. Melus Dec. 2007
Oliver-Rotger, Maria Antonia. Ethnographies of transnational migration in Ruben Martinez's Crossing Over. Melus June 2006
Schedler, Christopher. "Bugs in the capitalist machine: the schizo-violence of Alejandro Morales's The Brick People. Melus March 2007
Williams, Laura Anh. "Foodways and subjectivity in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies." Melus, Dec. 2007
Mexal, Stephen J. "The logic of liberalism: Lorenzo de Zavala's transcultural politics." Melus, June 2007
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