Postcolonially Speaking?

The meanings of postcolonial critique

“…Sangeeta Ray has voiced a representative complaint — namely, that Latour-inspired postcritique distorts the value of contextualization and the ethics of reading. The strength of postcolonial criticism lies precisely in its alertness to contexts — to “the particular political conditions under which literature is produced, circulated, and read” (2020: 553). Postcolonial critics, she argues, seek “to protect and to care but, unlike Latour, also to debunk.…”

“…Postcolonial critics, she argues, seek “to protect and to care but, unlike Latour, also to debunk. Debunking is not universally damaging to the humanities or to literary criticism, as Latour and the postcritics would have us believe” (2020: 556). Other scholars have gone further.…”