Postcolonial Theory

Poetic essay arguing colonialism dehumanizes both colonizer and colonized, comparing it to Nazism.

Analysis of the psychology of racism and dehumanization inherent in colonial domination, examining how colonized people internalize the colonizer's view.

Essays on Caribbean identity, colonialism, and the Prospero-Caliban relationship in Shakespeare's Tempest.

Prequel to Jane Eyre telling the story of the 'madwoman in the attic' as Antoinette Cosway in Jamaica.

Adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest from Caliban's perspective as colonized subject.

A philosophical inquiry into how Africa was invented by colonial discourse through missionary accounts, anthropology, and philosophy. Mudimbe shows how the colonial library created a distorted knowledge of Africa that Africans themselves have often had to inhabit.

Philosophical work developing 'Relation' as framework for understanding creolization and global identity.

Mbembe's landmark philosophical work examining postcolonial African politics — the aesthetics of power, the grotesque performance of authority, and the relationship between the state and its subjects.