Postcolonial Web Update Archive: January - June 2002

June 2002

• Overview article on Ben Okri added. Ben Okri overviews on theme and bibliography have been created to contain links to parts of this article.

May 2002

• Resources link in the diasporas overview added with more material.
• Resources link in the diasporas overview activated.
• Resource guide to the issue on the repatriation of indigenous cultural objects added to the diasporas section.
• An excerpt from the Introduction of Ashcroft et al. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures added.
• Entry on "Neocolonialism" in the Political/Historical Contexts overview of the Postcolonial Discourse section added.
• Article on public input and foreign architectural design in Singapore added.
• "Liberation" in the political and historical contexts section of the postcolonial discourse overview is now online.
• Essay on "African English Poetry: Some Themes and Features" added.

April 2002

• Essay on "A Critique of Naipaul's Half a Life" added.
• "Ideology" in the Political and Historical Contexts section of the postcolonial discourse overview is now online. New content, "Conceptions of Ideology" has been added to it.
• Partha Chatterjee has been added to the list of postcolonial and colonial discourse theorist. The Chatterjee overview contains an extensive set of lexias prepared by Dr Philip Holden.
• Spirit of a Community: Mosques in Singapore, which was a joint project between the University Scholars Programme and the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, has been added.
• Essay on Kincaid's A Small Place added.
• Catherine Obianuju Acholonu overview added. Currently contains picture and works of this author.
• Two essays (originally published elsewhere) have been added: Metamorphoses of Colonialism by Jeremy Seabrook and Globalization, its Implications and Consequences for Africa by S.T. Akindele et al.
• The item "imperialism" in Historical/Political contexts section of Postcolonial Theory overview is online. Essay on "Four Views of Imperialism and the Transformation of its Meanings" added.
• Added course syllabus and related material on Postcolonial Literature and Theory (English 365, Northwestern University) by Jillana Enteen.
• The alphabetical list of postcolonial theorists has been restored.
• The item "colonialism" in the Historical Contexts section of the Postcolonial Discourse and Theory overview is now online.
• New external link added to the Zimbabwean Music overview.
• The Historical Contexts section in the Postcolonial Discourse and Theory overview is now being progressively developed. The item "class" is now online.

March 2002

• The "What's New" section created to provide monthly summaries of changes to the Postcolonial Web.
• Hanif Kureishi Overview created.
• Most broken internal links have been corrected.
• Essay on "The Significance of Uselessness: Resisting Colonial Masculinity in Philip Jeyaretnam's Abraham's Promise" added to the Singapore literature section.
• Essay on "Home(s) Abroad: Diasporic Identities in Third Spaces" added.
• Review article on A Patchwork Shawl: Chronicles of South Asian Women in America added.
• The Postcolonial theorists section has been reorganized to include subcategories.
• "Exile" added to the Postcolonial Theory section on "Terms."
• Essay on "'Crisis in the soul' in Chinua Achebe's No Longer At Ease" added.
• Discussion on "Is Naipaul Postcolonial?" added.
• Essay on "Western Experiences: Education and 'Third World Women'in the Fictions of Tsitsi Dangarembga and Meena Alexander" added.
• New graphical South Asia overview created.

February 2002

• Ben Okri overview has been created.
• Diasporas overview created.
• " 'A State of Perpetual Wandering': Diaspora and Black British Writers" -- essay added.
• Links to University Scholars Programme courses of interest to Postcolonial Studies added. Syllabi of related courses taught at the National University of Singapore have also been added.

January 2002

• Essay on "Remembering the Veda: Accumulations of Interest" added.
• Dr Leong Yew joined the University Scholars Programme at the National University of Singapore as Postcolonial Web Research Fellow.

Last Modified: 2 August 2002