Utopia book writer series#

How does this feed into your newest work, Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures?īill Ashcroft: My interest in transformation stems from a long-standing uneasiness with the habit of postcolonial theory to see the relationship between the colonizer and colonized as purely hierarchical, the only response of postcolonial societies being one of opposition. Grant Hamilton: For those of us who have been reading your work for a number of years now, it is clear that you have had a very considerable interest in the notion of transformation.

Utopia book writer series#

Here we were able to ask him some brief questions about his latest book as part of the HKRB Interviews series with writers of new books in critical theory.

He is author and co-author of sixteen books, including the seminal text The Empire Writes Back (1989), and is one of the leading figures in Postcolonial Studies. They discuss the concept of utopia and why it finds its way so forcefully into the literature of previously colonized nations.īill Ashcroft, Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures (London: Routledge, 2016) 238pp.īill Ashcroft is an Australian Professorial Fellow in the University of New South Wales, Australia. Grant Hamilton interviews cultural and literary critic Bill Ashcroft about his new book on utopia and postcolonial writing.