Lyotard’s metanarrative critique remains a key reference pointJan 1, 1984Labels: Jean-Fran ois, The PostmodernBritannicaPostmodern Condition Wiki
Jameson’s postmodernism thesis enters wide critical debateJul 1, 1984Labels: Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism essayJameson Wiki
Parry criticizes deconstructive colonial discourse theoryJan 1, 1987Labels: Benita Parry, colonial discoursePhilPapers
Bhabha argues for theory’s political necessityJan 1, 1988Labels: Homi K, The CommitmentNew FormationsUCI Wellek
Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?” circulates widelyJan 1, 1988Labels: Gayatri Spivak, Can theCSCS ArchiveSpivak Wiki
Ashcroft, Griffiths, and Tiffin define postcolonial literary theoryJan 1, 1989Labels: Ashcroft Griffiths, The EmpireRoutledgeEmpire Wiki
Hutcheon foregrounds representation’s politics in postmodernismJan 1, 1989Labels: Linda Hutcheon, The PoliticsAbeBooksRoutledge
Appiah distinguishes postmodernism’s “post-” from postcolonial “post-”Jan 1, 1991Labels: Kwame Anthony, post- distinctionCritical InquiryPhilArchive
Jameson expands his thesis into a major 1991 monographJan 1, 1991Labels: Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism bookJameson Wiki
Ahmad’s *In Theory* attacks “post” theory’s depoliticizing tendenciesJan 1, 1992Labels: Aijaz Ahmad, In TheoryCambridge Core
Said’s *Culture and Imperialism* reorients “culture” around empireJan 1, 1993Labels: Edward Said, Culture andOxford Academic
Bhabha’s *The Location of Culture* popularizes hybridity discourseJan 1, 1994Labels: Homi K, The LocationRoutledgeWellcome
Dirlik critiques “postcolonial” as a global-capital academic fashionJan 1, 1994Labels: Arif Dirlik, The PostcolonialCritical Inquiry
Anderson historicizes “the postmodern” and centers Jameson’s roleSep 1, 1998Labels: Perry Anderson, The OriginsVersoCambridge Core
Spivak’s *A Critique of Postcolonial Reason* consolidates a self-reflexive turnJan 1, 1999Labels: Gayatri Spivak, A CritiqueSpivak Wiki de
