A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature

by Chew, Shirley; Richards, David

• ISBN13: 9781405135030
• ISBN10: 1405135034
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Taking an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to literature from 1947 to the present d ay , 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 ess ay s 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 w ay s 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

Author Biography

Shirley Chew is Emeritus Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Leeds. She has published widely in the field of Postcolonial literatures including the co-edited Unbecoming Daughters of the Empire (1993), Translating Life: Studies in Transpositional Aesthetics (1999) and Reconstructing the Book: Literary Texts in Transmission (2001). From 1992-1996 she co-edited The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. She is the founding editor Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writing (2001-present).

David Richards is Professor of English Studies and Director of the Centre of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Stirling having previously held posts at the universities of Leeds and Birmingham and at the Open University, where he was the founding Director of the Ferguson Research Centre. His published works include Masks of Difference: Cultural Representations in Literature, Anthropology and Art (1995) and Urban Generations: Post-colonial Cities (Co-edited with Taieb Balghazi and Taoufik Agoumy, 2005).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Notes on Contributors

Framing Identities

Orality and literacy

India

South Africa

Politics of rewriting

Postcolonial translations

Nation and nationalisms

Feminism and womanism

Cartographies and Visualization

Marginality: Representations of Subalternity, Aboriginality and Race

Anthropology and and Postcolonialism

Publishing Histories

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