Most post-colonial African literature was previously, well, anti-colonial. As soon as the “Wind of Change” speech was made by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to the Parliament of South Africa ...

In 1830, France forcibly and violently colonized Algeria, keeping it as a territory until 1962, when the North African nation gained its independence following one of the longest and most intense ...

Professor Isabel Hofmeyr opened her lecture Monday evening by taking the audience underwater. At the start of her talk, she detailed the dumping of books deemed unacceptable by the British Empire’s ...

In early summer, Nicole Legnani, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, anticipated a key hurdle in order to teach virtually in fall 2020. Legnani was planning her graduate seminar on colonial ...

Frank Herbert’s “Dune” novels struggled with their debt to colonial adventure literature. The books revel in swash and buckle and Mighty Whitey heroes lifted from the milieu of writers as various as ...

About the book: This book brings together leading critics in American literature to address the representation of time throughout a wide range of genres, methodologies, and chronological periods.

A colonial gaze — like the romantic conceptions of European life in African colonies popularised by the Hollywood movie Out of Africa — is reproduced in Germany in a whole range of narratives in which ...

Writing is about finding voice in the nuances of the human experience, Tanzanian author and Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah said at an event Sept. 14. The event, titled “A Conversation with Nobel ...

Natalia Alca, a fifth-grade student from Truman Elementary School, was recently named winner of the Colonial Day at the Capitol Literature Contest sponsored by the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence.