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A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature
Contributor(s): Chew, Shirley (Editor), Richards, David (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1118652355     ISBN-13: 9781118652350
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
Dewey: 820.9
Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.70 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated
 
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Publisher Description:
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
 
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