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This is a collection of essays designed to provide a survey of colonial, new national, and post-colonial literatures, and related criticism. The collection is intended as an introduction to those new to the subject, and it will also be of interest to the specialist. Besides examining the main concerns, opinions, and theories that have shaped discussion in this area, there is also a detailed bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The approach is comparative and by topic. The essays range from discussion of colonial literatures through nationalism to the internationalization of literature, multiculturalism, writing by post-colonial women, and analyses of the literature of the native peoples of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Most of the essays discuss creative writers and critics, including V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, Chinua Achebe, Vikram Seth, Fred D'Aguiar, Anita Desai, and Jamaica Kincaid.
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truly scholarly ... a most timely book and one which should be read by all in this field. Postcolonial studies are in desperate need of a book which is both comprehensive and scholarly, and this fills that need with point and challenge. Bruce King has once again demonstrated just how good an editor and scholar he is by choosing wisely and strategically his many contributors. The essays are both comprehensive and substantial, setting new standards for postcolonial criticism as well as providing very necessary backgrounds, something which many attempt but don't succeed in doing well or properly. / The range is impressive. (Kirpal Singh, World Lit. Written in English.)
the several studies contained in this book have expanded my own thinking and added largely to my understanding of some fundamental problems. (Kirpal Singh, World Lit. Written in English.)
this book contains a very good Bibliography ... an invaluable aid to any critic/scholar/student wanting to know more. (Kirpal Singh, World Lit. Written in English.)
Each group of essays, even the last one, works well together; there is overlap without too much repetition. It is a well edited volume with resourceful bibliographies that beginners and specialists will find helpful. - Craig V. Smith, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 29, no.4, 1998.
About the Author
Bruce King is a freelance editor and writer. Has held professorships or distinguished visiting professorships at Ibadan, Lagos, Stirling, Windsor (Canada), Canterbury (NZ), Ben Gurion (Israel), Paris III, Paris VII, and North Alabama.
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