Anticolonialism as Theory

YOGITA GOYAL is Professor of African American Studies and English at UCLA and the author of Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature (2010) and Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery (2019), which won the René Wellek Prize from ACLA, the Perkins Prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative, and Honorable Mention for the James Russell Lowell Prize from MLA. Past President of ASAP, she has published widely on African diaspora, postcolonial, and US literature and is working on The Genres of Anticolonialism, a study of mid-twentieth-century anticolonial thought and its current revival.