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 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
Content:
Chapter 1 Framing Identities (pages 9β28): David Richards
Chapter 2 Orality and Literacy (pages 29β55): G. N. Devy and Duncan Brown
Chapter 3 The Politics of Rewriting (pages 56β77): C. L. Innes
Chapter 4 Postcolonial Translations (pages 78β96): Susan Bassnett
Chapter 5 Nation and Nationalisms (pages 97β119): John McLeod
Chapter 6 Feminism and Womanism (pages 120β140): Nana Wilson?Tagoe
Chapter 7 Cartographies and Visualization (pages 141β161): David Howard
Chapter 8 Marginality: Representations of Subalternity, Aboriginality and Race (pages 162β181): Stephen Morton
Chapter 9 Anthropology and Postcolonialism (pages 182β203): Will Rea
Chapter 10 Publishing Histories (pages 204β228): Gail Low