A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature
A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature
- ISBN 13:
9781118652350
- ISBN 10:
1118652355
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 02/03/2014
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
- An indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of Postcolonialism, bringing together 10 original essays from leading international scholars including C. L. Innes and Susan Bassnett
- Explains the ideas and practises that emerged from the dismantling of European empires
- Explores the ways in which these ideas and practices influenced the period's keynote concerns, such as race, culture, and identity; literary and cultural translations; and the politics of resistance
- Chapters cover the fields of identity studies, orality and literacy, nationalisms, feminism, anthropology and cultural criticism, the politics of rewriting, new geographies, publishing and marketing, translation studies.
- Features a useful Chronology of the period, thorough general bibliography, and guides to further reading