A concise companion to postcolonial literature
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A concise companion to postcolonial literature
(Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
First published by Blackwell Publishing in hardback in 2010
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Taking an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to literature from 1947 to the present day, 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 essays 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 ways 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
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Shirley Chew
1 Framing Identities 9
David Richards
2 Orality and Literacy 29
Part 1: India G.N. Devy
Part 2: South Africa Duncan Brown
3 The Politics of Rewriting 56
C.L. Innes
4 Postcolonial Translations 78
Susan Bassnett
5 Nation and Nationalisms 97
John McLeod
6 Feminism and Womanism 120
Nana Wilson-Tagoe
7 Cartographies and Visualization 141
David Howard
8 Marginality: Representations of Subalternity, Aboriginality and Race 162
Stephen Morton
9 Anthropology and Postcolonialism 182
Will Rea
10 Publishing Histories 204
Gail Low
Index 229
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