Postcolonial Literatures introduces the writing that emerged in the wake of decolonisation in the second half of the twentieth century. Students will read literary works from across the postcolonial world, including from the Middle East, South and South-East Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Australia, and will consider how writers contended with the legacies of European imperialism and the historical crises that came in its wake. Postcolonial writing imaginatively engages with processes of partition, neo-colonialism, separatism, persistent dependency, and the large-scale movements of people to the first world, whether as migrants or refugees. The subject also considers decolonial and postcolonial literary theory, which have profoundly influenced thinking across the humanities and in public life.