An Introduction by Kamala Das is one of her powerful autobiographical poems. It is written in free verse and in confession style. It presents her…
Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session is a disturbing play, first performed in 1967. It investigates gender discrimination, societal hypocrisy, and the violent…
Rudali by Mahasweta Devi is a powerful short story that tracks the life of Sanichari, poor, low-cast woman, who lives in a feudal village called…
A Song of Hope by Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal) is a powerful and optimistic expression of the Aboriginal people’s longing for justice, equality and recognition…
Dance Like a Man is a play of two acts by Mahesh Dattani. It is about the life of Jairaj and Ratna, a middle-class couple…
Waltzing Matilda by Banjo Paterson has been a renowned iconic ballad of Australia composed in 1895. The ballad is often referred to as the “Unofficial…
Thomas King‘s “Godzilla vs Postcolonial” is a critique of the use of the term “post-colonial” for describing literature of the countries that formerly were colonies,…
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a tragic novel frequently studied as part of historical fiction. This is Chinua Achebe’s debut novel, his magnum…
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is a modernist novel that was published in 1925. It focuses on a single day in June of post-World War…
Cry The Beloved Country is a 1948 novel by Alan Paton, a South African writer and activist against apartheid. It is a political fiction, which…