Edwards Postcolonial Literature

2008
ISBN: 978-1-137-02150-2
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

Reihe: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism

This Guide analyses the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions of the postcolonial world. Criticism on works by writers such as Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie, is discussed to illustrate the themes and concepts essential to an understanding of postcolonial literature and the development of criticism in the field

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edwards, Justin D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Postcoloniality.- Difference.- Language.- Orality.- Rewriting.- Violence.- Travel.- Maps.- Gender.- Queer.- Haunting.- Memory.- Hybridity.- Diaspora.- Globalization.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

JUSTN EDWARDS is currently Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge and 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.