Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction
Title | Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Pramod K. Nayar |
Publisher | Pearson Education India |
Pages | 402 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 8131785343 |
Postcolonial writing originating from Africa, Asia, and South America in the mid-twentieth century has constantly examined, negotiated with, and reacted to the overarching experience of colonial subjugation. Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction, with its seven thematically organized chapters, lucidly elucidates complex concepts and formulations of postcolonial literature and theory and critically analyses their various dimensions with relevant examples from contemporary postcolonial writing. The book would also appeal to the general reader aiming to gain a thorough understanding of the fundamental themes and discourses of postcolonial literature.
Postcolonial Literature
Title | Postcolonial Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Pramod K. Nayar |
Publisher | Pearson Education India |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN | 9788131713730 |
The Language of Postcolonial Literatures
Title | The Language of Postcolonial Literatures PDF eBook |
Author | Ismail S. Talib |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780415240185 |
Exploring literatures from a range of countries this book provides a comprehensive introduction to some of the central features of language in a wide variety of postcolonial texts.
Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
Title | Colonial and Postcolonial Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Elleke Boehmer |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2005-10-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191608300 |
Colonial and Postcolonial Literature is the leading critical overview of and historical introduction to colonial and postcolonial literary studies. Highly praised from the time of its first publication for its lucidity, breadth, and insight, the book has itself played a crucial part in founding and shaping this rapidly expanding field. The author, an internationally renowned postcolonial critic, provides a broad contextualizing narrative about the evolution of colonial and postcolonial writing in English. Illuminating close readings of texts by a wide variety of writers - from Kipling and Conrad through to Kincaid, from Ngugi to Noonuccal and Naipaul - explicate key theoretical terms such as 'subaltern', 'colonial resistance', 'writing back', and 'hybridity'. This revised edition includes new critiques of postcolonial women's writing, an expanded and fully annotated bibliography, and a new chapter and conclusion on postcolonialism exploring keynote debates in the field relating to sexuality, transnationalism, and local resistance.
Postcolonialism
Title | Postcolonialism PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. C. Young |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 2016-10-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1118896866 |
This seminal work—now available in a 15th anniversary edition with a new preface—is a thorough introduction to the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory. Provides a clearly written and wide-ranging account of postcolonialism, empire, imperialism, and colonialism, written by one of the leading scholars on the topic Details the history of anti-colonial movements and their leaders around the world, from Europe and Latin America to Africa and Asia Analyzes the ways in which freedom struggles contributed to postcolonial discourse by producing fundamental ideas about the relationship between non-western and western societies and cultures Offers an engaging yet accessible style that will appeal to scholars as well as introductory students
Postcolonial Literatures in English
Title | Postcolonial Literatures in English PDF eBook |
Author | Anke Bartels |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2019-04-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3476055981 |
The term ‘postcolonial literatures in English’ designates English-language literatures from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania, as well as the literatures of diasporic communities who have moved from those regions to the global north. This volume introduces the central themes of postcolonial literary studies and delineates how these themes are reflected and elaborated in exemplary literary works by postcolonial authors from around the world. It also offers succinct definitions of key terms like Orientalism, hybridity, Indigeneity or writing back.
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Lazarus |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2004-07-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521534185 |
Offers a lucid introduction to postcolonial studies, one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.