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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
Articles on the historical, social and political realities of postcolonialism as expressed in contemporary writing.

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 aconsideration 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 voicesof 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.

Contributors: Vilashini Cooppan, Fernando Coronil, Gautam Premnath, Ato Quayson, Tim Watson, Lawrence Phillips, Sukhdev Sandhu

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