WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Postcolonial theory (or often post-colonial theory) deals with the effects of colonization on cultures and societies and those societies’ responses.

Detailed explanation-2: -Major Figures Some of the best known names in Postcolonial literature and theory are those of Chinua Achebe, Homi Bhabha, Edward Said, Buchi Emecheta, Frantz Fanon, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cultural critic Edward Said is considered by E. San Juan, Jr. as “the originator and inspiring patron-saint of postcolonial theory and discourse” due to his interpretation of the theory of orientalism explained in his 1978 book, Orientalism.

Detailed explanation-4: -First, the assumption that colonialism is over and a postcolonial world is here does not hold up. Second, postcolonialism’s methodological toolkit is too obsolete to deal with emerging world problems. Third, the field’s selective geographic focus has omitted “problem areas, ” such as the Middle East.