How Derek Walcott’s epic poem Omeros helped Schneider K. Rancy write a Haitian reimagining of The Odyssey.
How Derek Walcott’s Postcolonial Epic Helped Me Write My Novel
It’s hard to understate the importance of the classical tradition to postcolonial literature. The Puerto Rican playwright Luis Rafael Sánchez recast Sophocles’ Antigone in La pasión según Antígona …
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November 3, 2026 at 8:00 PM
How Derek Walcott’s epic poem Omeros helped Schneider K. Rancy write a Haitian reimagining of The Odyssey.
Accidental banger of a reading list, tho. Current events in America are an incomprehensible mess of irrational behavior if you don't have some baseline knowledge of those subjects.
October 30, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Accidental banger of a reading list, tho. Current events in America are an incomprehensible mess of irrational behavior if you don't have some baseline knowledge of those subjects.
"Postcolonial Theory" is a particularly funny title to call "America-hating" given the whole, "the United States used to be a group of separate imperial colonies but then they moved past that stage and into a postcolonial era" part.
October 30, 2026 at 1:04 PM
"Postcolonial Theory" is a particularly funny title to call "America-hating" given the whole, "the United States used to be a group of separate imperial colonies but then they moved past that stage and into a postcolonial era" part.
You can read some of Dr. O'Hara's other work on 19th-century Mexico in HAHR here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
November 3, 2026 at 3:02 PM
You can read some of Dr. O'Hara's other work on 19th-century Mexico in HAHR here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
People keep explaining to me that the dominant ethno-linguistic group in this postcolonial state is violently opposed to sharing powers with the minorities it rules over, as if this is some kind of unique and insolvable conundrum that we're supposed to be flummoxed by.
Agree completely. The Palestinians and their advocates need to understand that only the freely-given consent of the Israeli electorate will deliver a Palestinian state. October 7th effectively removed that possibility for generations.
October 29, 2026 at 2:14 AM
People keep explaining to me that the dominant ethno-linguistic group in this postcolonial state is violently opposed to sharing powers with the minorities it rules over, as if this is some kind of unique and insolvable conundrum that we're supposed to be flummoxed by.
A beautifully written memoir, aptly described by Jonny Steinberg as a “brilliant portrait of a family navigating the minefields of the postcolonial world.”
November 2, 2026 at 3:52 PM
A beautifully written memoir, aptly described by Jonny Steinberg as a “brilliant portrait of a family navigating the minefields of the postcolonial world.”
📢 ECPS Commentary
🇪🇺 Securitized Borders, Migrantized Grievances: Populism, Migration Governance & Europe’s Postcolonial Entanglements
✍️ Shaza Khalid & Maryam Hameed
📖 Read critical examination of how migration, populism & postcolonial legacies intersect. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/long-read-se...
🇪🇺 Securitized Borders, Migrantized Grievances: Populism, Migration Governance & Europe’s Postcolonial Entanglements
✍️ Shaza Khalid & Maryam Hameed
📖 Read critical examination of how migration, populism & postcolonial legacies intersect. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/long-read-se...
November 3, 2026 at 10:22 AM
📢 ECPS Commentary
🇪🇺 Securitized Borders, Migrantized Grievances: Populism, Migration Governance & Europe’s Postcolonial Entanglements
✍️ Shaza Khalid & Maryam Hameed
📖 Read critical examination of how migration, populism & postcolonial legacies intersect. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/long-read-se...
🇪🇺 Securitized Borders, Migrantized Grievances: Populism, Migration Governance & Europe’s Postcolonial Entanglements
✍️ Shaza Khalid & Maryam Hameed
📖 Read critical examination of how migration, populism & postcolonial legacies intersect. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/long-read-se...
postcolonial theory is the ultimate dev tool for debugging power structures.
November 1, 2026 at 6:01 AM
postcolonial theory is the ultimate dev tool for debugging power structures.
Things Fall Apart: an Igbo village meets the end of the world it knew, in prose that moves like proverbs. Chinua Achebe wrote it in 1958 and the postcolonial novel in English effectively begins here. If you map Nigeria once, map it with this.
#bookstodon #booksky #worldlit
#bookstodon #booksky #worldlit
November 3, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Things Fall Apart: an Igbo village meets the end of the world it knew, in prose that moves like proverbs. Chinua Achebe wrote it in 1958 and the postcolonial novel in English effectively begins here. If you map Nigeria once, map it with this.
#bookstodon #booksky #worldlit
#bookstodon #booksky #worldlit
Nice to see Nsah Mala’s and my edited book, Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere, featured in this banner from @livunipress.bsky.social
We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our generous sponsors, @livunipress.bsky.social : anyone interested in our conference theme will certainly be interested as well in their Francophone Postcolonial Studies series www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-s...
October 30, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Nice to see Nsah Mala’s and my edited book, Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere, featured in this banner from @livunipress.bsky.social
New Voices / Nouvelles voix / Nuevas voces : Post-Postcolonial Caribbean Literature (St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago) https://www.fabula.org/actualites/137555/new-voices-nouvelles-voix-nuevas-voces-post-postcolonial-caribbean-literature-colloque-international.html
New Voices / Nouvelles voix / Nuevas voces : Post-Postcolonial Caribbean Literature (St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago)
New Voices / Nouvelles voix / Nuevas voces Post-Postcolonial Caribbean Literature Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago May 3-5, 2027[1] In 1968, poet Heberto Padilla provoked a crisis in Cuba when suggesting that time might...
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November 2, 2026 at 6:40 PM
New Voices / Nouvelles voix / Nuevas voces : Post-Postcolonial Caribbean Literature (St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago) https://www.fabula.org/actualites/137555/new-voices-nouvelles-voix-nuevas-voces-post-postcolonial-caribbean-literature-colloque-international.html
🚨New #OnlineFirst and #OpenAccess article out with Global Society🚨
"Redress and the Global South: The Changing Landscape of Postcolonial Reparation Claims" is by Max M. Goetz.
Be sure to give it a read!👇
"Redress and the Global South: The Changing Landscape of Postcolonial Reparation Claims" is by Max M. Goetz.
Be sure to give it a read!👇
November 3, 2026 at 11:21 AM
🚨New #OnlineFirst and #OpenAccess article out with Global Society🚨
"Redress and the Global South: The Changing Landscape of Postcolonial Reparation Claims" is by Max M. Goetz.
Be sure to give it a read!👇
"Redress and the Global South: The Changing Landscape of Postcolonial Reparation Claims" is by Max M. Goetz.
Be sure to give it a read!👇
His groundbreaking work Orientalism (1978) exposed how Western representations of the so-called 'Orient' reinforced racist stereotypes and legitimized colonial domination, laying the foundations for postcolonial studies.
November 1, 2026 at 5:31 PM
His groundbreaking work Orientalism (1978) exposed how Western representations of the so-called 'Orient' reinforced racist stereotypes and legitimized colonial domination, laying the foundations for postcolonial studies.
My guilty pleasure, asking Claude to comment on popular songs, net ephemera, movies with "suprise me with a genuinely deep take, liberal arts style". In the past I tried "postcolonial intersectional deconstruction" as a proxy, but feels a bit dated now.
But basically what I mean is "interesting"!
But basically what I mean is "interesting"!
November 2, 2026 at 7:41 PM
My guilty pleasure, asking Claude to comment on popular songs, net ephemera, movies with "suprise me with a genuinely deep take, liberal arts style". In the past I tried "postcolonial intersectional deconstruction" as a proxy, but feels a bit dated now.
But basically what I mean is "interesting"!
But basically what I mean is "interesting"!
À partir du cas d’Haïti, Magali Bessone propose chez @edladecouverte.bsky.social une réflexion sur les enchevêtrements entre le passé colonial et le présent postcolonial/néocolonial, esquissant les contours de ce que pourrait être une réelle justice réparatrice 👇
www.contretemps.eu/haiti-contre...
www.contretemps.eu/haiti-contre...
Haïti : Contre la domination (néo)coloniale, pour une justice réparatrice - Contretemps
À partir du cas d’Haïti, Magali Bessone propose une réflexion sur les enchevêtrements entre le passé colonial et le présent postcolonial/ néocolonial. Entre injustice historique et structures sociales...
www.contretemps.eu
October 30, 2026 at 9:52 AM
À partir du cas d’Haïti, Magali Bessone propose chez @edladecouverte.bsky.social une réflexion sur les enchevêtrements entre le passé colonial et le présent postcolonial/néocolonial, esquissant les contours de ce que pourrait être une réelle justice réparatrice 👇
www.contretemps.eu/haiti-contre...
www.contretemps.eu/haiti-contre...
Which stream is yours? #RCELL2027 invites papers on literature in the age of AI:
I. AI & posthumanism
II. Digital humanities
III. Ecology & climate futures
IV. Postcolonial, decolonial & Indigenous futures
Online, 13–14 Feb 2027
conference2027.rcell.co.in
I. AI & posthumanism
II. Digital humanities
III. Ecology & climate futures
IV. Postcolonial, decolonial & Indigenous futures
Online, 13–14 Feb 2027
conference2027.rcell.co.in
Call for papers: RCELL International Conference 2027
Literature in the Age of AI: Posthumanism, Digital Humanities and Ecological Futures. Online, 13–14 February 2027.
conference2027.rcell.co.in
November 3, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Which stream is yours? #RCELL2027 invites papers on literature in the age of AI:
I. AI & posthumanism
II. Digital humanities
III. Ecology & climate futures
IV. Postcolonial, decolonial & Indigenous futures
Online, 13–14 Feb 2027
conference2027.rcell.co.in
I. AI & posthumanism
II. Digital humanities
III. Ecology & climate futures
IV. Postcolonial, decolonial & Indigenous futures
Online, 13–14 Feb 2027
conference2027.rcell.co.in
I got pulled in a different grad school direction (same arguments, but "how do genres of ostensible western 'origin' operate in postcolonial societies' pop cultures?") but I never gave up on the meme-monitoring since I teach rhetoric to freshmen and narrowly escaped my own 4chanification as a teen.
November 3, 2026 at 11:22 PM
I got pulled in a different grad school direction (same arguments, but "how do genres of ostensible western 'origin' operate in postcolonial societies' pop cultures?") but I never gave up on the meme-monitoring since I teach rhetoric to freshmen and narrowly escaped my own 4chanification as a teen.
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
✒️ Remembering Palestinian-American founder of postcolonial studies #EdwardSaid (Orientialism), #BOTD 1 November 1935. #Literature
✒️ Remembering Palestinian-American founder of postcolonial studies #EdwardSaid (Orientialism), #BOTD 1 November 1935. #Literature
November 1, 2026 at 5:51 AM
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
✒️ Remembering Palestinian-American founder of postcolonial studies #EdwardSaid (Orientialism), #BOTD 1 November 1935. #Literature
✒️ Remembering Palestinian-American founder of postcolonial studies #EdwardSaid (Orientialism), #BOTD 1 November 1935. #Literature
Nighttime reading for Hallowe'en, China Miéville's latest (and biggest) book. A ghost story of sorts, jumbled up with British postcolonial wars, but about a third of the way through it and I've no idea where we're going.
October 31, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Nighttime reading for Hallowe'en, China Miéville's latest (and biggest) book. A ghost story of sorts, jumbled up with British postcolonial wars, but about a third of the way through it and I've no idea where we're going.
the fact that most of these accounts are mostly like 20 somethings that think theyre being edgy bc they watched a couple YouTube videos (poorly) summarizing some postcolonial theory never ceases to amuse me
October 28, 2026 at 1:01 PM
the fact that most of these accounts are mostly like 20 somethings that think theyre being edgy bc they watched a couple YouTube videos (poorly) summarizing some postcolonial theory never ceases to amuse me
I need at least 100 documentaries on Africa NEOW. One for every country. Pre-colonial. Postcolonial. Biafran war. Francophone countries. Lusophone countries. Architecture. Trade routes. Religions. Geographies. Everything outside of the animals, which is all they give us.
Woman Counting and Angry Gesture in Bed
ALT: Woman Counting and Angry Gesture in Bed
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October 31, 2026 at 12:50 AM
I need at least 100 documentaries on Africa NEOW. One for every country. Pre-colonial. Postcolonial. Biafran war. Francophone countries. Lusophone countries. Architecture. Trade routes. Religions. Geographies. Everything outside of the animals, which is all they give us.
An important postcolonial critique: can the Louvre display seized antiquities from Libya and Syria without confronting its own colonial legacy? Published in 2021, still worth reading.
#AncientBluesky 🏺
hyperallergic.com/louvre-shoul...
#AncientBluesky 🏺
hyperallergic.com/louvre-shoul...
The Louvre Shouldn't Exhibit Trafficked Antiquities from Libya and Syria
The museum forgets that it is already a violent graveyard of colonial-era cultural trophies removed from their homelands under dubious circumstances.
hyperallergic.com
November 3, 2026 at 10:41 PM
An important postcolonial critique: can the Louvre display seized antiquities from Libya and Syria without confronting its own colonial legacy? Published in 2021, still worth reading.
#AncientBluesky 🏺
hyperallergic.com/louvre-shoul...
#AncientBluesky 🏺
hyperallergic.com/louvre-shoul...
Learning that the king showed up to Independence Day in Antigua, and it rained on him and locals took their sweet time finding him an umbrella, is sparkling with postcolonial irony especially after I taught Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place earlier this semester.
November 3, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Learning that the king showed up to Independence Day in Antigua, and it rained on him and locals took their sweet time finding him an umbrella, is sparkling with postcolonial irony especially after I taught Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place earlier this semester.