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Informationen zum Autor Sangeeta Ray is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland.She is author of Engendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives (2000), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: In Other Words (Wiley Blackwell 2009), and of the forthcoming Postcolonial Reading: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics. She is also co-editor, with Henry Schwarz, of A Companion to Postcolonial Studies (Wiley Blackwell 2000). She serves on several editorial boards of key journals, and her areas of specialization include postcolonial studies, ethnic and transnational studies, world literature, and environmental humanities.Henry Schwarz is Professor of English at Georgetown University, where he was Director of the Program on Justice and Peace from 1999 to 2007. His books include Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India (1997), Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India: Acting Like a Thief (Wiley Blackwell 2010), Reading the Shape of the World: Toward an International Cultural Studies (co-edited with Richard Dienst, 1996), and A Companion to Postcolonial Studies (with Sangeeta Ray, Wiley Blackwell 2000). He has produced four documentary films on underclass culture in India. His areas of specialization include literary theory, cultural studies, South Asia regional studies, and comparative literature. Current research and writing bring him increasingly closer to human rights, indigenous people, and creative practices of social change. Klappentext Bringing together the most wide-ranging and up-to-date scholarship ever assembled on the colonial, postcolonial, and neocolonial condition, The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies comprises nearly 400 authoritative, accessible entries on canonical writers, key texts, genres, literary debates, colonized regions, and related terminology, covering the period from 1492 to the present. Written by an international team of leading scholars and rising stars, it also includes entries on topics of contemporary and emerging significance, acknowledging the radical innovations brought by democratization and globalization, such as environmentalism, electronic mass media, and the transnational social justice movement. This state-of-the-art resource for students and scholars spans a broad range of disciplines, including literature, cultural studies, political science, sociology, and history.The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature is a comprehensive, scholarly, authoritative, and critical overview of literature and theory comprising individual titles covering key literary genres, periods, and subdisciplines. Available both in print and online, this groundbreaking resource provides students, teachers, and researchers with cutting-edge scholarship in literature and literary studies. Zusammenfassung The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies brings together the most wide-ranging and up-to-date scholarship ever assembled on the colonial, postcolonial and neo-colonial condition, covering the period from 1492 to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Volume IAlphabetical list of EntriesThematic List of EntriesAssociate EditorsList of ContributorsIntroductionSangeeta RayIntroductionHenry SchwarzPostcolonial Studies A-G [tbc]Volume IIPoscolonial Studies H-R [tbc]Volume IIIPostcolonial Studies S-Z [tbc]Index ...
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Volume I
Alphabetical list of Entries
Thematic List of Entries
Associate Editors
List of Contributors
Introduction
Sangeeta Ray
Introduction
Henry Schwarz
Postcolonial Studies A-G [tbc]
Volume II
Poscolonial Studies H-R [tbc]
Volume III
Postcolonial Studies S-Z [tbc]Index
