Critics and Writers Speak Revisioning Post-Colonial Studies

by Maver, Igor; Albertazzi, Silvia; Brewster, Anne; Hawley, John; Huggan, Graham; Keefer, Janice Kulyk; Kobayashi, Fukuko; Peterson, William; Pierce, Peter; Ross, Robert L.; Wainwright, J. A.

• ISBN13: 9780739114049
• ISBN10: 0739114042
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-28
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

This book of new critical essays and interviews with writers interrogates the current usage of the term and the category of the post-colonial as a theoretical concept, discourse and state of mind. By looking at contemporary writing in English throughout the world, it critically revisions the current practice of post-colonial studies and calls attention to its significant weaknesses.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Essays
"Post-Colonial Literatures in English ab origine ad futurum"	p. 11
"Proteus, Gertrude, and the Post Colonial Rag"	p. 34
"Reading Literatures in English without Theory"	p. 48
"Cannibal Rights: Intertextuality and Postcolonial Discourse in the Caribbean Region"	p. 56
"'Archaic Ambivalence:' The Case of South Africa"	p. 67
"Remembering Whiteness: Reading Indigenous Life Narrative"	p. 85
"Recolonisation and Disinheritance: the Case of Tasmania"	p. 106
"Here and There as Everywhere: Writing On in Monkey Beach"	p. 115
"Maori Theatre on Its Own Ground: Moving Past the 'Post' in Post-Colonialism"	p. 126
"Sparring with Shadows, or: Is there a Post-Colonial Child?"	p. 143
Interviews
"Magwitch Is Really My Ancestor': Interview with Peter Carey"	p. 155
"Deep Vibrancy of Silence: Interview with Trinh T. Minh-ha"	p. 160
"Interview with the Jamaican Writer Opal Palmer Adisa"	p. 174
Index	p. 183
About the Contributors	p. 185
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