A Theory of Postcolonialism

least because of its aspiration to proffer, as its subtitle indicates, "a

theory of postcolonialism [sic] ." This wariness turned out to be justified,

but only in part: This book's strength does not reside in specifying a (new)

theory; it does, however, reside in its close textual readings of the various

texts (and writers) that exemplify the often fine uses to which Lopez puts

some of the guiding critical assumptions/theoretical formulations of extant

postcolonial scholarship. This is why I wish Lopez had, in his introduction,

dispensed with his own critique of some recent critiques of postcolonial

theory and focused only on those parts of his introduction where he specifies

the theoretical framework and concepts (like Homi Bhabha's account of

"ambivalence," "hybidity," and "interstitial" or "third

Edward Said has suggested as much about Heart of Darkness ("Intellectuals in

the enabling sense of a threshold or frontier from which (new) possibilities

Cliff, J. M. Coetzee, Frantz Fanon, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Salman

Some topics in this essay:
Marquez Rushdie, , Homi Bhabha's, Heart Darkness, Salman Rushdie--to, Fanon Lopez, World Salmagundi, English Literature, Cliff Coetzee, Lopez Lopez, extant postcolonial, garcia marquez, interstitial position, postcolonial scholarship, heart darkness, extant postcolonial scholarship, ch 3, cliff coetzee,