Postcolonial Literary Critics
Edward Said is often considered to have been the seminal postcolonial critic. Other useful critics are Bill Ashcroft, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Alamgir Hashmi, Homi K. Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, Leela Gandhi, Gareth Griffiths, Abiola Irele, John McLeod, Gayatri Spivak, Hamid Dabashi, Helen Tiffin, Khal Torabully, and Robert Young
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