Postcolonial literature
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Postcolonial literature is literature by people from formerly colonized countries, originating from all continents except Antarctica. Postcolonial literature often addresses the problems and consequen
In La Réforme intellectuelle et morale (1871), the Orientalist Ernest Renan advocated imperial stewardship for civilising the non–Western peoples of the world.
Witi Ihimaera, from New Zealand, the first published Māori novelist
Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright and poet and Nobel laureate in 1986
Actress Pauline Henriques and writer Samuel Selvon reading a story on BBC's Caribbean Voices 1952
Edward Said
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Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial stud
Postcolonial literature
…A range of literary theory has evolved around the subject. It examines the role of literature in perpetuating and challenging what postcolonial critic Edward Said calls cultural imperialism. It is at its most overt in texts that write back to the European canon (Thieme 2001). Migrant literature and postcolonial…
Said in 2002
Said and his sister, Rosemarie Said, dressed in traditional Arab clothing, 1940
Said in the Princeton University yearbook, 1957
The cover of the book Orientalism (1978) is a detail from the 19th-century Orientalist painting The Snake Charmer, by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904).