Post-Colonial Literatures: Expanding the Canon (Post-Colonial Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745315100 ISBN 13: 9780745315102

Publisher: Pluto Press, 1999

Synopsis

Post-colonial literatures, paperback, Minor shelfwear to extremities of book, otherwise fine.

About this title

Synopsis:

This collection of essays on the field of post-colonial studies, offers perspectives on texts from both sides of the Atlantic, challenging the emerging consensus on post-colonial literatures in the process. The contributors discuss a diversity of related topics, from case studies of specific authors to theoretical investigations of such fundamental questions as the role of literary study within multicultural societies. At the heart of the book is the endeavour to analyze in depth the diversity of multicultural, post-colonial ideas crystallising around concepts or race, gender, hybridity, culture, minority status, the legacy of colonialism and the politics of race and gender.

About the Author:

Deborah L. Madsen is Professor of American Literature at the University of Geneva, and the author of numerous books on aspects of literature, genre, gender and allegory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0745315100
• ISBN 13: 9780745315102
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Madsen Deborah L.