Stephen Slemon

Postcolonial Magical Realism

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on October 24, 2017 • ( 3 )

The majority of magical realist writing can be described as postcolonial. That is to say much of it is set in a postcolonial context and written from a postcolonial perspective that challenges the assumptions of an authoritative colonialist attitude. As… Read More ›

Post-colonial Allegory

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on September 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

The simplest definition of allegory is a ‘symbolic narrative’ in which the major features of the movement of the narrative are all held to refer symbolically to some action or situation. Allegory has long been a prominent feature of literary… Read More ›