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The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies

Publié le par Julien Desrochers

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