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Language of Postcolonial Literaturesby Ismail S. Talib
Routledge 2002; US$ 41.95Exploring literatures from a range of countries this book provides a comprehensive introduction to some of the central features of language in a wide variety of postcolonial texts. more...
Post-Colonial Dramaby Helen Gilbert; Joanne Tompkins
Routledge 1996; US$ 45.95The first full-length study to address the ways in which performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism. Brings to bear the latest theoretical approaches from post-colonial and performance studies. more...
Empire Writes Backby Bill Ashcroft; Gareth Griffiths; Helen Tiffin
Routledge 2002; US$ 30.95This was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture, and remains one of the most significant works published in this field. more...
Postcolonial Studiesby Benita Parry
Routledge 2004; US$ 35.95Parry offers the compelling argument that theoretical work must strive to join remembrance of the material past with a critique of the contemporary condition, remaining unreconciled to the past and unconsoled by the present. more...
Connectionsby Emmanuel Nelson
Aboriginal Studies Press 1988; US$ 12.00A collection of 8 essays which were presented at the International Conference on Black Literatures at the University of Queensland in 1986. The essays foucs on Aboriginal literature, including the writings of David Unaipon, Jack Davis, Ed Bullins, Colin Johnson and Kevin Cibert, but also examine other black experiences, including the works of Maori authors and black Americans. more...
Caliban's Voiceby Bill Ashcroft
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 37.95In Shakespeares Tempest, Caliban says to Miranda and Prospero:. "...you taught me language, and my profit ont. Is, I know how to curse. ". With this statement, he gives voice to an issue that lies at the centre of post-colonial studies. Can Caliban own Prosperos language? Can he use it to do more than curse?. Calibans Voice examines the ways in which post-colonial literatures have transformed English to redefine what we understand to be English Literature. It investigates the importance of language learning in the imperial mission, the function of language in ideas of race and place, the link between language and identity,... more...
Interdisciplinary Measuresby Graham Huggan
Liverpool University Press 2008; US$ 85.00Where now for postcolonial studies? That is the central question in this new volume from one of the fields most original thinkers. Huggans answer is interdisciplinarity and here he sets out a series of conversations between literary studies and other disciplines, notably geography, environmental studies, history and anthropology.Huggan aims to establish an alternative trajectory through the field of postcolonial literary/cultural studies that is alert to similar kinds of work being done in and across other disciplines; and reflects on possible futures for postcolonial studies that move beyond current theoretical and methodological orthodoxies, and that re-stake a claim for the centrality of literary studies to the field. more...
Classics in Post-Colonial Worldsby Lorna Hardwick; Carol Gillespie
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 170.50Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects and put to new uses. In this collection of essays, international scholars debate the relationship between the culture of Greece and Rome and the changes that have followed the end of colonial empires. - ;Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for creating cultural identities that blend the old and the new. Nobel prize-winners such as Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney have rewritten classical material in their own cultural idioms while public sculpture in southern Africa... more...
Colonial and Postcolonial Literatureby Elleke Boehmer
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 48.00Praised as an indispensable, uniquely inclusive study of the field, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature is the definitive, founding introduction to the exciting growth area of colonial and postcolonial writing in English. It combines a broad-ranging, contextualising narrative situating key developments in imperial and postcolonial history, with theoretically astute close readings of key texts that illuminate important concepts and definitions, including 'writing back' and. 'mimicry'. This revised edition includes a new chapter surveying postcolonialism in the twenty-first century and a fully annotated bibliography. - ;Colonial and Postcolonial Literature is the leading critical overview of and historical introduction to colonial... more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in Englishby C. L. Innes
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 23.00An invaluable guide through the growing field of postcolonial literature studies. more...









