· 2024
The Postcolonial Studies Reader
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The third edition of The Postcolonial Studies Reader is a thoroughly revised and updated collection of 125 extracts from key works in postcolonial theory and criticism, reflecting the discipline's diversity and anti-imperialist writing.
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Key points
- Contains 125 extracts from key works in postcolonial theory and criticism.
- Updated to include new scholarship from the last 15 years.
- Covers diverse topics including nationalism, hybridity, diaspora, and globalization.
- Reflects the vibrancy of anti-imperialist and decolonizing writing.
- Aims to challenge conventional ways of thinking and writing about literature and culture.
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Abstract
The most comprehensive collection of postcolonial writing theory and criticism, this third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 125 extracts from key works in the field. Leading, as well as lesser-known figures in the fields of writing, theory and criticism contribute to this inspiring body of work that includes sections on nationalism, hybridity, diaspora and globalisation. As in the first two editions, this new edition of The Postcolonial Studies Reader ranges as widely as possible to reflect the remarkable diversity of work in the discipline and the vibrancy of anti-imperialist and decolonising writing both within and without the metropolitan centres. This volume includes new work in the field over the decade and a half since the second edition was published. Covering more debates, topics and critics than any comparable book in its field The Postcolonial Studies Reader provides the ideal starting point for students and issues a potent challenge to the ways in which we think and write about literature and culture.
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