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Taking an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to literature from 1947 to the present day, this Concise Companion is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of Postcolonial literature and culture. 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 BassnettExplains the ideas and practises that emerged from the dismantling of European empiresExplores 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 resistanceChapters 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
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A Concise Companion to
Postcolonial Literature Edited by Shirley Chew and David Richards
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
A Concise Companion to
Postcolonial Literature
Blackwell Concise Companions to Literature and Culture General Editor: David Bradshaw, University of Oxford This series offers accessible, innovative approaches to major areas of literary study. Each volume provides an indispensable companion for anyone wishing to gain an authoritative understanding of a given period or movement’s intellectual character and contexts. Published Modernism Feminist Theory The Restoration and Eighteenth Century Postwar American Literature and Culture The Victorian Novel Twentieth-Century American Poetry Chaucer Shakespeare on Screen Contemporary British Fiction English Renaissance Literature Milton Shakespeare and the Text Contemporary British and Irish Drama American Fiction 1900–1950 The Romantic Age Postwar British and Irish Poetry Middle English Literature Terror and the Postcolonial Postcolonial Literature
Edited by David Bradshaw Edited by Mary Eagleton Edited by Cynthia Wall Edited by Josephine G. Hendin Edited by Francis O’Gorman Edited by Stephen Fredman Edited by Corinne Saunders Edited by Diana E. Henderson Edited by James F. English Edited by Donna B. Hamilton Edited by Angelica Duran Edited by Andrew Murphy Edited by Nadine Holdsworth and Mary Luckhurst Edited by Peter Stoneley and Cindy Weinstein Edited by Jon Klancher Edited by Nigel Alderman and C.D. Blanton Edited by Marilyn Corrie Edited by Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton Edited by Shirley Chew and David Richards
A Concise Companion to
Postcolonial Literature Edited by Shirley Chew and David Richards
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
This edition first published 2010 © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd except for editorial material and organization © 2010 Shirley Chew and David Richards Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February 2007. Blackwell’s publishing program has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. Registered Office John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom Editorial Offices 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at www.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell. The right of Shirley Chew and David Richards to be identified as the authors