The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies

Compte rendu dans Acta fabula: Le divan de la compagnie postcoloniale, par Didier Coste.

Compte rendu dans l'Atelier de fabula: S'orienter dans les études postcoloniales, par Patrick Sultan.

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Neil Lazarus (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies

Cambridge University Press, 2004, 350 p.

ISBN:0521534186

A comprehensive introduction to postcolonialism, this Companion examines different aspects of postcolonial thought and culture that have had a significant effect on contemporary critical thought. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postcolonialism's relation to modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, film, law, philosophy, and modern cultural studies. Additional material includes a guide to further reading and a chronology.

Table of Contents:

Introducing postcolonial studies

NEIL LAZARUS

Part 1   Social and Historical Context

The global dispensation since 1945 - NEIL LAZARUS

Anticolonialism, national liberation, and postcolonial nation formation - TAMARA SIVANANDAN

The institutionalization of postcolonial studies

BENITA PARRY

Part 2   The Shape of the Field

Postcolonial literature and the Western literary canon

JOHN MARX

Poststructuralism and postcolonial discourse

SIMON GIKANDI

From development to globalization: postcolonial studies and globalization theory

TIMOTHY BRENNAN

Reading subaltern history

PRIYAMVADA GOPAL

Temporality and postcolonial critique

KEYA GANGULY

Part 3   Sites of Engagement

Nationalism and postcolonial studies

LAURA CHRISMAN

Feminism in/and postcolonialism

DEEPIKA BAHRI

Latin American postcolonial studies and global decolonization

FERNANDO CORONIL

Migrancy, hybridity, and postcolonial literary studies

ANDREW SMITH

References

Index