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Postcolonial Theory and Criticism

Postcolonial Theory and Criticism

Chrisman, Laura
Parry, Benita
Cooppan, Vilashini

Hardcover

Series: Essays and Studies, Book 52

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0859915549
ISBN13: 9780859915540
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Mar 9 2000
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.94 Depth: 8.66
Language: English
Contemporary postcolonial studies represent a controversial area of debate. This collection seeks a more pragmatic approach to the subject, taking into account its historical, social and political realities, rather than ignoring a consideration of material conditions. The contributors look at the oppositional power held and exercised by anti-colonial movements, a neglected topic; address the literary strategies devised by metropolitan writers to contain the insecurities of empire, given that unrest and opposition were integral to British imperialism; contest the charges of nativism and essentialism made by postcolonial critics against liberation writings; and investigate the voices of both inhabitants of post-independence nation states, and those scattered by colonialism itself. Dr LAURA CHRISMAN teaches at Sussex University; BENITA PARRY is Honorary Professor at Warwick University.

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