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Literary Theory

Thinkers and essays gathered around this school of thought.

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15Major Works
10Archive Entries
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Chinua Achebe

Examines story, colonial representation, moral ambiguity, tradition, power, and who gets to narrate a people.

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will glorify the hunter.”
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1935–2003

Edward Said

Analyzes how empires produce knowledge about others and how representation becomes power.

Language & Meaning · Literary Theory · Political Philosophy
1938–present

Ngugi wa Thiongo

Explores language, colonial memory, storytelling, theatre, decolonization, and the politics of whose words shape reality.

African Thought · Language & Meaning · Literary Theory
1930–2013

Chinua Achebe

Examines story, colonial representation, moral ambiguity, tradition, power, and who gets to narrate a people.

African Thought · Ethics · Literary Theory
1930–2004

Jacques Derrida

Reads texts through deconstruction, difference, ambiguity, traces, and the instability of fixed meaning.

Language & Meaning · Literary Theory · Poststructuralism
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