Postcolonialism

When ever I came across the world "Postcolonialism" I thought I needed to read about it something more than what Wikipedia provides, but never got the time to do so.
Now I am reading this book Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. C. Young and it is really good. In fact, the series of books under Very Short Introductions by the Oxford University Press seems impressive. I read the book on Globalization: A Very short introduction and it too was very good.

I would highly recommend this book to all non-Western scholars and Western scholars (in other words for everyone) because it gives you a chance to locate yourself in this world and make you aware of how your thought process is shaped by the power politics.

Following are some interesting quotes from the book.

"A lot of people don't like the term 'postcolonial'[..]. It disturbs the order of the world. It threatens privilege and power. It refuses to acknowledge the superiority of western cultures. Its radical agenda is to demand equality and well-being for all human beings on this earth." (p7)




Young, Robert J.C. (2003). Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, Oxford University Press.