Blue Note Records: The Biography by Richard Cook Pimlico, £10 Jazz scholar Cook's aim is to explore the "mystique" of the record label rather than provide a history. The story begins with 78s ...

Toronto scholar Jessica Langer has just published a fascinating book called Postcolonialism and Science Fiction. In this excerpt from the book’s introduction, she defines what that means, and explores ...

Uprisings across the Arab world may have ushered in a new era for many [AP] Note: Hamid Dabashi’s new book, The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism (2012) has just been published by Zed in London.

For over a hundred years, the study of International Relations (IR) has been shaped by a handful of big ideas about how the world works. These ideas were developed in European and American ...

The uncertainty about the status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir has loomed large since 1947. Is Jammu and Kashmir a postcolonial state? Postcolonialism refers to a historical phase undergone by ...

Perhaps more than any other field, postcolonial studies has, since its inception, been the site of anxious and often polemical debates about what have been perceived ­ even by many postcolonial ...

The purpose of this chapter is to approach a flexible but solid definition of the word ‘postcolonialism’. In order to think about the range and variety of the term, we need to place it in two primary ...