John McLEOD (dir.), The Routledge Companion To Postcolonial Studies

John McLEOD (dir.), The Routledge Companion To Postcolonial Studies, Oxford, Routledge (Routledge Companions), 2007, 272 p.
ISBN 9780415324960
ISBN-10 0415324963


RÉSUMÉ

The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies offers a unique and up-to-date mapping of the postcolonial world, and is composed of essays as well as shorter entries for ease of reference. Introducing students to the history of the great European empires and the cultural legacies created in their wake, this book brings together an international range of contributors on such topics as the colonial histories of Britain, France, Spain and Portugal, the diverse postcolonial and diasporic cultural endeavours from Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Europe, and South and East Asia and the major theoretical formulations: poststructuralist, materialist, culturalist, psychological.
With a comprehensive A to Z of forty key writers and thinkers central to contemporary postcolonial studies and featuring historical maps, this is both a concise introduction and an essential resource for any student of postcolonial culture, whatever their field.

TABLES DES MATIÈRES

Introduction  Part 1: The Colonial Empires.  The British Empire.  The French Empire.  The Spanish and Portugese Empires.  The Dutch Empire  Part 2: Postcolonial Locations.  Africa (North and Central).  Australasia.  Canada.  Caribbean.  Ireland.  South America.  Southern Africa . South and East Asia.  US and European Diasporas  Part 3: Postcolonial Formulations.  Psychological Formulations.  Poststructuralist Formulations.  Materialist Formulations.  Culturalist Formulations.  Part 4: Key Writers and Thinkers.  Chronology.  Further Reading.  Index of Key Concepts


BIOGRAPHIE

John McLeod is Reader in Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures at the School of English, University of Leeds. He is the author of numerous books, including Beginning Postcolonialism (Manchester University Press, 2000) and Postcolonial London: Rewriting the Metropolis (Routledge, 2004).