Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts - The Key Concepts

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 includin, cosmopolitanism, development and fundamentalism. Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts remains an essential guide for anyone studying this vibrant field.

List of contents

Introduction List of Key Concepts KEY CONCEPTS Bibliography Name Index Subject Index

About the author

Bill Ashcroft teaches at the University of NSW, Gareth Griffiths at the University of Western Australia and Helen Tiffin at the University of New England. They are the editors of The Post Colonial Studies Reader and the authors of The Empire Writes Back, both published by Routledge.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Ashcroft, Bill (University of New South Wales Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Griffiths Gareth, Helen Tiffin, Tiffin Helen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2013
• EAN: 9780415661904
• ISBN: 978-0-415-66190-4
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Routledge Key Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Reference, Reference works, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, Literary studies: postcolonial literature