This is a survey of the major texts of postcolonial political thought, including Franz Fanon, Edward Said, Partha Chatterjee, Uday Mehta, and others. These texts will help us explore the following questions about political life in postcolonial societies: More generally, this course explores the following questions: how do postcolonial thinkers conceive of freedom, reason, equality, and political emancipation in the wake of a colonial domination that has fundamentally (if diversely) re-shaped their modes of living and producing?