Postcolonialism
Articles
- ‘Isn’t there a poem about this, Mr de Mille?’: On Quotation, Camp and Colonial Distancing
There is something queer about quotation, and something creepy too. To quote is to deconstruct the alleged distinction between speech spoken by me ('my' speech)…
1 November 2008 - Is Australia (still) Postcolonial (yet)? Review of Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature, edited by Nathanael O'Reilly
Almost ten years ago, a spate of edited books in Canada by the academics Laura Moss and Cynthia Sugars brought important insights from the then-vibrant…
1 June 2012 - Cooper, Cather, Prichard, 'Pioneer': The Chronotope of Settler Colonialism
This essay considers three novels which each bear the word ‘pioneer’ in their titles: James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers (1823), Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! (1913)…
1 June 2016