Who put the "post" in postcolonial?

From: Novel | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

LEELA GANDHI, Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), pp. x + 200, $17.50.

The complexity of postcolonial theory can be surmised, in part, from the variety of forms critics manipulate out of its key term. Most common is the hyphenated "post-colonial," indicating an attention to historical periodization, or the run-together "postcolonial," suggesting an emphasis on ideological continuity. There is also an ironic "(post)colonial," which employs parentheses to raise the specter of an asserted "post" that is not quite one, and an alternative ...

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