Of the 12 students in Col. John Nelson's Postcolonial Literature and Theory course, three of them are related. Cadets Ryan, Celiné and Whitney Gunderman don't have any other siblings, were all ...

When V.S. Naipaul was interviewed after the release of Between Father and Son, a collection of the letters he exchanged with his father after moving from Trinidad to Oxford for a scholarship in 1950, ...

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Ambreen Hai specializes in Anglophone postcolonial literature from South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and 19th–20th century literature of the British Empire. Additional research and teaching ...

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I n the essays my students write, I have begun to notice a common pattern. They are structured almost like Aesop’s fables. A moral seems necessary at the end — a kind of wrapping up, whichever way one ...

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 ...

Stephen Morton has received funding from the British Academy. In Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, the fictional character Whisky Sisodia comments that the “trouble with the Engenglish ...

Sophie Gee does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Her 1989 book, “Meatless Days,” is viewed as an important work of postcolonial literature. By Neil Genzlinger Sara Suleri Goodyear, a scholar who vividly evoked her upbringing in Pakistan in “Meatless ...