Category Archive: postcolonialism

Blinded by the White: The Colonised Imaginations of Gurinder Chadha and Sarfraz Manzoor

Like most of her work, Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded by the Light parades as a paean to diversity and inclusion while reinforcing white supremacy.

‘Parasite’ Is the First Sexual Critique of Capitalism

Even as it is a critique of capitalism, Bong Joon-ho’s film is also an immediate, sexual object under capitalism.

Reading Colonialism in “Parasite”

The more Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece is regarded, the more it seems to vanish in the spectacle of its acclaim.

Global Modernist Literature and Metropolitan Unreality

Nikolai Gogol’s 1835 short story “Nevsky Prospect” opens with a paean to the vivacity of life on its titular street.

Everything Is Coming Up Stacey

Cockpunches. Octopuses and otters. Shoe polish. Minnesota Mean. What the fuck is happening?

London Calling: Paul Gilroy, Dick Hebdige, and British Multiculturalism

Black man gotta lot a problems But they don’t mind throwing a brick White people go to school […]

Syriana: Responsibility to Protect or Someone Else’s Problem?

If you’ve ever taken an International Relations Theory course then it’s likely that you’ve encountered the ubiquitous naysayer […]

Love and Death in the Early 1990s

What do Meat Loaf, Robin Hood and Dracula have to do with the Persian Gulf War?  Filmmaker Bradlee […]