Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism

by Gaurav Desai (Editor), Gaurav Desai (Editor)

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2005
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Postcolonialisms brings together the key texts which define the study of colonial and postcolonial cultures. This expansive and clearly organized anthology offers the most up-to-date and in-depth overview of this rapidly developing field. Canonical essays explore postcolonialism's key themes of power and knowledge whilst newer articles expand the analysis to include the discovery of the New World, English colonialism in Ireland, Native American and indigenous identities in Latin America and the Pacific, settler colonies in Africa and Australia, and feminism in Nigeria and Egypt. The inclusion of a broad sampling of histories and theories attests to multiple, even competing postcolonialisms.The careful organization of the volume provides a map of the field. Articles are grouped into sections. Detailed introductions to each section serve to develop key themes, encourage debate, and contextualize the wide-ranging voices intrinsic to the study of postcolonialism.

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Postcolonialisms brings together the key texts which define the study of colonial and postcolonial cultures. This expansive and clearly organized anthology offers the most up-to-date and in-depth overview of this rapidly developing field. Canonical essays explore postcolonialism's key themes of power and knowledge whilst newer articles expand the analysis to include the discovery of the New World, English colonialism in Ireland, Native American and indigenous identities in Latin America and the Pacific, settler colonies in Africa and Australia, and feminism in Nigeria and Egypt. The inclusion of a broad sampling of histories and theories attests to multiple, even competing postcolonialisms.The careful organization of the volume provides a map of the field. Articles are grouped into sections. Detailed introductions to each section serve to develop key themes, encourage debate, and contextualize the wide-ranging voices intrinsic to the study of postcolonialism.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 672
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Published: 01 Jul 2005
ISBN 10: 1845203321
ISBN 13: 9781845203320
Book Overview: Also available in hardback, 9781845203313 GBP50.00 (July, 2005)

Media Reviews

'The interdisciplinary field of postcolonial studies has expanded and transformed itself in many new directionsit is time to have this new reader with selections that are in touch with these developments.' Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College'The organization is excellent, properly balanced between the canonical and the updated, between geographical regions, and in terms of the liveliest controversies.'Bruce Robbins, Columbia University 'Postcolonialisms provides in one place critical essays which account both for the discourses of imperialism as well as generations and movements of anti-colonial critique ... perhaps the best collection of its kind in postcolonial studies.' Carole Boyce Davies, Florida International University'One of the best anthologies of contemporary postcolonial studies, this is a very useful resource for students. The editors do justice both to the history of the field and its most current concerns. The book provides a wide range of intellectual p

Author Bio

Gaurav Desai is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University and author of Subject to Colonialism: African Self-fashioning and the Colonial Library. Supriya Nair is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University and author of Caliban's Curse: George Lamming and the Revisioning of History.