by Patrick Colm Hogan (Author)
What is Colonialism? develops a clear and rigorous account of what colonialism is and how it works. It draws on and synthesizes recent work in cognitive science, affective science, and social psychology, along with Marxism and related forms of analysis.
Author Biography
Patrick Colm Hogan is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut, USA. His publications include The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion (co-edited with Bradley J. Irish and Lalita Pandit Hogan, 2022), American Literature and American Identity: A Cognitive Cultural Study from the Revolution Through the Civil War (2020), and Literature and Emotion (2018), as well as a novel treating modern colonialism, A People Without Shame (2023).