Colonialism | Situating Colonial and Postcolonial Studies: Colonialism and Literature
In the following essay, Loomba explores literature as a vehicle for complex examinations of Colonialism.
Objectivity is not the only ground on which claims for ideological and political innocence can be made. Humanist literary studies have long been resistant to the idea that literature (or at least good literature) has anything to do with politics, on the grounds that the former is either too subjective, individual and personal or else too universal and transcendent to be thus tainted. Accordingly, the relationship between Colonialism and literature was not, until recently, dealt with by literary criticism. Today, the situation seems to be rapidly reversing itself, with many, if not a...
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