Edward Said

Edward Said

male, deceased (2003)
postcolonial literature, Postcolonialism, postcolonial theory, Princeton University alumni, Academic, Arab American
Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist. He was University Professor of English and C...
Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon

male, deceased (1961)
liberation movements, anti-colonial, anti-colonialism, Postcolonialism, Marxist theorist, National liberation movements
Frantz Fanon was a French author from Martinique, essayist, psychoanalyst, and revolutionary. He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the 20th...
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

female, 67 years old
Indian women writer, Indian, Cornell University alumni, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, University Professor, bengali…Postcolonialism
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born February 24 1942) is a literary critic and theorist. She is best-known for the article "Can the Subaltern Speak?",...
Robert J.C. Young

Robert J.C. Young

male, 59 years old
Postcolonialism, postcolonial theory, Colonial Desire, Postcolonialism An Historical Introduction, White Mythologies Writing History and the West, Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford
Robert JC Young (born 1950) is a postcolonial theorist, cultural critic, and historian. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, taught at the...
Achille Mbembe

Achille Mbembe

male
University of Pennsylvania, Postcolonialism, Institut d’Etudes politiques, postcolonial, African history, University of Sorbonne
Achille Mbembe was born in Cameroon in 1957. He obtained his Ph. D. in History at the University of Sorbonne in Paris, France, in 1989. He...
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

female
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Postfeminist, Postcolonialism, American, Film Studies
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is a professor in the Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, specializing in film studies, cultural...
Oswald de Andrade

Oswald de Andrade

male, deceased (1954)
Modernism, poet, writer, sao paulo, Brazilian, cannibalism…Postcolonialism
José Oswald de Andrade Souza was a Brazilian poet and polemicist. He was born and spent most of his life in São Paulo. Andrade was one of the fo...
Molara Ogundipe

Molara Ogundipe

female
writer, nigerian, Feminist, african, authority, social critic…Postcolonialism
Omolara Ogundipe-Leslie is a Nigerian feminist/Afro-Marxist writer who is considered one of the foremost writers on African feminism and...
Octave Mannoni

Octave Mannoni

male, deceased (1989)
Postcolonialism, Post-colonial theory, Psychoanalyst, French, psychoanalysis, colonization
Octave Mannoni was a French psychoanalyst and author. After spending more than twenty years in Madagascar, Mannoni returned to France after World...
Duro Ladipo

Duro Ladipo

male, deceased (1978)
nigerian, Playwright, yoruba, Postcolonialism, von Karajan, Post-colonial theory
Duro Ladipo was one of the best known and critically acclaimed Yoruba dramatists that emerged from postcolonial Africa. Writing solely in the...