Postcolonial Literature

by Edwards, Justin

• ISBN13: 9780230506732
• ISBN10: 0230506739
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This Guide analyzes the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions and countries of the postcolonial world. Criticism on works by key writers, such as Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie and Jamaica Kincaid, is discussed throughout the volume to illustrate the themes and concepts that are essential to an understanding of postcolonial literature and the development of criticism in the field. Criticism and theoretical approaches are discussed in relation to analyses of literary works from South Africa, Nigeria, Jamaica, Antigua, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and Sri Lanka. Criticism on Native American writing, African American literature, as well as Irish, Scottish and Welsh liberationist texts are also mentioned throughout. The book concludes with a discussion of the theoretical debates surrounding neocolonialism, globalization and what has been referred to as and the rise of a "new world" economic empire in the West that has accelerated since the dismantling of the Soviet Union.

Author Biography

JUSTIN EDWARDS is currently Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. He was previously Associate Professor of English at the University of Copenhagen and, from July 2006, he will be Professor of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century English Literature at the University of Wales, Bangor. He has published widely on Canadian and American literature and travel writing.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Colonies

Difference

Language

Orality

Rewriting

Haunting

Memory

Hybridity

Violence

Centre/Margin

Bodies

Conclusion: Neo-colonialism

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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