A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature.

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Author:

Chew, Shirley.

ISBN:

9781118652350

Personal Author:

Chew, Shirley.

Publication Information:

Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

Physical Description:

241 p. 23 cm.

Series:

Concise Companions to Literature and Culture

Concise Companions to Literature and Culture.

Contents:

Framing Identities -- Chapter 2: Orality and Literacy; Part 1: India; Part 2: South Africa -- Chapter 3: Politics of Rewriting -- Chapter 4: Postcolonial Translations -- Chapter 5: Nation and Nationalisms -- Chapter 6: Feminism and Womanism; Chapter 7: Cartographies and Visualization -- Chapter 8: Marginality: Representations of Subalternity, Aboriginality and Race -- Chapter 9: Anthropology and Postcolonialism -- Chapter 10: Publishing Histories.

Abstract:

This Concise Companion offers an innovative, multi-disciplinary approach to Postcolonial literatures and cultures from 1947 to the present. In a series of original essays, leading international scholars, including C.L. Innes and Susan Bassnett, seek to explore and explain the ideas and practices that have emerged from the dismantling of European empires, and the impact that these have on Postcolonial literatures and cultures. This authoritative Companion investigates the key concerns of and the politics of resistance. Individual chapters focus on a broad range of subjects such as identity studies, orality, and literacy, nationalisms, feminism, anthropology and cultural criticism, the politics of rewriting, new geographies, publishing and marketing, and translation studies. A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of Postcolonialism.

Subject Term:

African literature (English) -- Publishing -- History -- 20th century.

Literature.

Publishers and publishing -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.

Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.

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Taking an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to literature from 1947 to the present day, this concise companion is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of postcolonial literature and culture. An indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of Postcolonialism, bringing together 10 original essays from leading international scholars including C. L. Innes and Susan Bassnett Explains the ideas and practises that emerged from the dismantling of European empires Explores the ways in which these ideas and practices influenced the period's keynote concerns, such as race, culture, and identity; literary and cultural translations; and the politics of resistance Chapters cover the fields of identity studies, orality and literacy, nationalisms, feminism, anthropology and cultural criticism, the politics of rewriting, new geographies, publishing and marketing, translation studies. Features a useful Chronology of the period, thorough general bibliography, and guides to further reading