Image, Symbol, and Motif in Postcolonial Literature and Critical Theory: An Overview

• atomic weapons
• binary oppositions, mannicheanism
  • Neil Lazarus on The Reductive Rhetoric of African Anticolonialism
  • Experimental Vision: Wilson Harris's Use of Combination to Propose A New Form of Postcolonial Unity
• center and margin
  • The Double and the Center: V.S. Naipaul and Caryl Phillips' Use of Doubling to Eradicate Traditional Notions of Center and Periphery
• childhood and infancy
• cleanliness versus dirt, filth
• domesticity
• exploration
• heroism
• hand
• virginity and virgin lands
• animality, excessive sexuality
  • European Porno-tropics