Transformations in Postcolonial Theory: The Postcolonial Critic Caroline Rooney

About this book

What remains of postcolonial theory when it reproduces the very centers of power it set out to dismantle? This collective study places the work of British scholar Caroline Rooney at the heart of a wide-ranging inquiry into criticism, resistance, and intellectual responsibility. Moving from Palestine and Algeria to the wider African continent, its contributors examine the tensions within poststructuralist and postmodern thought while reconnecting theory with poetry, public life, and political action. The result is a rigorous, cross-disciplinary volume for readers seeking a genuinely emancipatory critical practice grounded in human dignity.