A Companion to Postcolonial Studies
โ Scribed by Henry Schwarz, Sangeeta Ray
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 632
- Series
- Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947.
- Ranges widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study
- Presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia
- Provides clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European colonization
- Features introductory essays on the major thinkers and intellectual schools that have informed strategies of national liberation worldwide
- Offers an incisive summary of the long history and theory of modern European colonization in local detail and global scale
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