Postcolonialism and its aftermath have produced new critical debates that question the accuracy and relevancy of its theoretical constructs, bringing to the fore new concepts in relation to its afterlives around the world. These debates have inspired new concepts emanating from South American and the
Caribbean theorists, such as the ‘coloniality of power’, as popularised by the late sociologist Anibal Quijano; or the ‘theory of decoloniality’, as vigorously advocated by the scholar Walter Mignolo; or the critique of the ‘the over-representation of man’ as introduced by the philosopher Sylvia Wynter, in the context of the ‘coloniality of being’. Panelists will explore and critique these new ideas and constructs in relation to literary, artistic and cultural production.