Dialogic Spaces: The Potential for Interrogating the Cultural Constructs of the English Literary Canon

The book is an attempt to develop and put into practice a further engagement with post-colonial, literary, and cultural studies. In particular, it is a further exploration in the potentials of critical thought and post-colonial theory. It explores the interweaving theoretical tents of post-colonial discourse with other firmly established theories and philosophies so far believed to be discrete from the each other. In its response to a plethora of criticisms spilled over the theory (post-colonialism) under the assumptions of ideology, dogma, counter violence, and ethnocentricity. The book explores intertwining elements of the 'Diasporic Philosophy' of Frankfort School (mainly, Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin); Gramsci’s ‘Spontaneous Philosophy’; Bakhtain’s ‘Dialogism’, and Bhabha’s culturally specific ‘Hybridity’ and ‘Third Spaces’ of post-colonialism. By carving out a middle way between the wholesale of these theories, the book proposes a further critical and pedagogic stance referring to as ‘Critical Spaces of Diaspora’ (CSD), which might be taken up as a variety of post-colonial critical repertoire.