The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary StudiesNeil Lazarus Cambridge University Press, 2004 M07 15 - 301 páginas The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, first published in 2004, offers a lucid introduction and overview of one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies. The volume aims to introduce readers to key concepts, methods, theories, thematic concerns, and contemporary debates in the field. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, contributors explain the impact of history, sociology and philosophy on the study of postcolonial literatures and cultures. Topics examined include everything from anti-colonial nationalism and decolonisation to globalisation, migration flows, and the 'brain drain' which constitute the past and present of 'the postcolonial condition'. The volume also pays attention to the sociological and ideological conditions surrounding the emergence of postcolonial literary studies as an academic field in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Companion turns an authoritative, engaged and discriminating lens on postcolonial literary studies. |
Contenido
List of contributors page | ix |
Introducing postcolonial studies I | 1 |
Social and Historical Context | 15 |
Anticolonialism national liberation and postcolonial | 41 |
The institutionalization of postcolonial studies | 66 |
Postcolonial literature and the Western literary canon | 83 |
Poststructuralism and postcolonial discourse | 97 |
postcolonial studies | 120 |
Temporality and postcolonial critique | 162 |
Nationalism and postcolonial studies | 183 |
Feminism inand postcolonialism | 199 |
Latin American postcolonial studies and global | 221 |
Migrancy hybridity and postcolonial literary studies | 241 |
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Reading subaltern history | 139 |
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Post-colonial Studies: The Key Concepts Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
Global playing in der Literatur: ein Versuch über die Neue Weltliteratur Elke Sturm-Trigonakis Vista previa limitada - 2007 |