Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts

✍ Scribed by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 368
Series: Routledge Key Guides
Edition: 3
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This hugely popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity.

For this third edition over thirty new entries have been added including:

Cosmopolitanism
Development
Fundamentalism
Nostalgia
Post-colonial cinema
Sustainability
Trafficking
World Englishes.

Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts remains an essential guide for anyone studying this vibrant field.

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