Research Guides: LIT 4310: Literary Theory: Postcolonial Criticism

Key Theorists in Postcolonial Theory

Explore these main theorists in colonial and postcolonial criticism:

Chinua Achebe
Benedict Anderson
Homi K. Bhabha
Rey Chow
Hamid Dabashi
Frantz Fanon
Paul Gilroy

C.D. Narasimhaiah
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Taban Lo Liyong, and Henry Owuor-Anyumba
Rob Nixon
Edward W. Said
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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Books on Postcolonial Theory

Edward Said by Bill Ashcroft; D. P. S. Ahluwalia
Call #: e-Book

Publication Date: 2001
Edward Said on Orientalism by Sut Jhally
Call #: MEDIA 909.097671 E25

Publication Date: 2002
A Said Dictionary by R. Radhakrishnan
Call #: e-Book

Publication Date: 2012
Postcolonial Theory and Criticism by Laura Chrisman; Benita Parry
Call #: e-Book

Publication Date: 2000
Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature by Amritjit Singh (Editor); Peter Schmidt (Editor)
Call #: MAIN 810.992 P857

Publication Date: 2000
Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction by Leela Gandhi
Call #: MAIN 320.9045 G159P

Publication Date: 1998
Colonialism/Postcolonialism
(New Critical Idiom Series) by Ania Loomba
Call #: MAIN 325.3 L863C2

Publication Date: 2015
After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century by Bashir Abu-Manneh (Editor)
Call #: OhioLINK

Publication Date: 2018
Beginning Postcolonialism by John McLeod
Call #: MAIN 820.9 M165B2

Publication Date: 2010

Primary Theoretical Sources on Postcolonialism

Orientalism by Edward W. Said
Call #: MAIN 950.072 S132O

Publication Date: 1979