Social reformers and colonial theorists formulated plans to settle Algeria with European emigrants.
Dedicated to the celebrated post-Colonial theorist (Glissant wrote about racism and slavery), the painting is made of eight panels covered in acrylic molds resembling tiles.
Controversial, challenging and outspoken, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is best known as a deconstructionist and post-colonial theorist.
Post-colonial theorist affirm that poor countries are led into poverty by a global system based on market expansion, in which industrialised countries (the centre) receive all the benefits.
Later it would be a source text for the New Critics, then the litter box for post-colonial theorists.
Despite the transforming insights of feminist, Marxist, queer and post-colonial theorists over the last few decades, much of our history is still written by the victors – and so our modes of behaviour in the present are dictated by a meagre and highly partial version of who we were in the past.
Anderson was seen as a leading scholar of post-colonial theorists on the left, and his assertions drew fiery rebuttals.
It's partly inspired by the lost plays of psychiatrist and anti-colonial radical Frantz Fanon, and forms part of their ongoing Finding Fanon series, an exploration into the writings of the influential 20th century post-colonial thinker and theorist.
Rendering the long-dead theorist of colonial liberation in a mode designed to identify criminals and terrorists creates a bit of friction.
So it feels almost inevitable that Wideman would at some point turn his attention to Frantz Fanon, the West Indian psychiatrist and theorist of anti-colonial revolt, diagnostician of both the multilayered madness of white supremacy and the tortured pathologies of the oppressed.
"The idea that there were these fictions, containing possible answers to the post-colonial condition, written by such a powerful theorist, led us to idea for a search for these lost plays.
