Postcolonial Literature

This Guide analyses the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions of the postcolonial world. Criticism on works by writers such as Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie, is discussed to illustrate the themes and concepts essential to an understanding of postcolonial literature and the development of criticism in the field>

Sommario

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Postcoloniality
Difference
Language
Orality
Rewriting
Violence
Travel
Maps
Gender
Queer
Haunting
Memory
Hybridity
Diaspora
Globalization
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Info autore

JUSTN EDWARDS is currently Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge and Professor of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century English Literature at the University of Wales, UK.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Justin Edwards, Justin D Edwards, Justin D. Edwards, EDWARDS JUSTIN D
• Editore: Macmillan
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 26.06.2008
• EAN: 9780230506732
• ISBN: 978-0-230-50673-2
• Pagine: 224
• Serie: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism; Readers Guides to Essential Cr; Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism; Readers Guides to Essential Cr
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; B, Literature, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Postcolonial/World Literature