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Postcolonialism across the Disciplines

This series delves into the complex legacies of colonialism on contemporary society, culture, and thought. It examines how colonial powers shaped worlds and how postcolonial subjects grapple with the inheritance of oppression. Through scholarly essays and studies, it uncovers persistent inequalities and forms of resistance on a global scale.

Postcolonial Asylum
Cultured Violence

Recommended Reading Order

  • Cultured Violence

    • 192 pages
    • 7 hours of reading

    Uses a range of narratives to explore contemporary South African culture and illuminate a cultural `state of the nation' in terms of violence, gender, human rights and democracy.

    Cultured Violence
  • Postcolonial Asylum

    • 256 pages
    • 9 hours of reading

    This book investigates how, as postcolonial studies revises its agenda to incorporate twenty-first century concerns, asylum has emerged as a key field of enquiry.

    Postcolonial Asylum