The second volume of the Vassar College Postcolonial Star Wars Anthology
11 December 2018

As multimodal literary critics, our collective aim is to bring postcolonial studies into dialogue with media studies through a sustained, critical analysis of the Star Wars narrative. These essays move beyond depoliticized appreciations of the films to examine their historical, political, and cultural significance across the millennial divide. This means using theory to better appreciate and understand the ways in which Star Wars reinforces, complicates, and undermines postcolonial discourse, while simultaneously positioning the films as a lens that can help us interrogate postcolonial and media theories.