Postcolonial Criticism
Select Format
Select Condition 
Book Overview
Postcolonial Criticism brings together some of the most important critical writings in the field, and presents a clear overview and introduction to this exciting and rapidly developing area of contemporary literary criticism. A series of ten essays and an extensive introduction have been gathered together to reflect both the diversity and continuity of postcolonial criticism. The first phase of postcolonial criticism is recorded here in the pioneering work of thinkers like Aimee Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, and Gayatri Spivak. More recently, a new generation of academics has provided fresh assessments of the interaction of class, race and gender in cultural production, and this generation is represented in the work of Aijaz Ahmad, Bell hooks, Homi Bhabha, Abdul Jan Mohamed and David Lloyd.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:058223798X
ISBN13:9780582237988
Release Date:October 1997
Publisher:Routledge
Length:312 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
excellent extended introduction to ten exemplary essays
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
The long and admirable 70 page introduction outlines the postcolonial field of studies in as succinct and lucid a manner as possible taking special care to note that in this field there is no such thing as consensus. The fields most marked characteristic is perhaps its diversity which is not too surprising given the wide scope of historic, cultural and psychic circumstance now under its scrutiny. Excellent summaries of the primary figures in the field as well as an awareness of the provisionality of any self-definition (of both the field of study and the political reality), for as postcolonial theories evolve so do the definitions of the postcolonial.Essays: 1)Cesaire from Discourse on Colonialism 2)Fanon On National Culture 3)Achebe An Image of Africa:Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness 4)Said Orientalism Revisited 5)Spivak Three Womens Texts and a Critique of Imperialism 6)Bhabha Race, Time, and Revision of Modernity 7)Bryden/Tiffin West Indian Literature and the Australian Comparison 8)Bell Hooks Revolutionary Black Women:Making Ourselves Subject 9)JanMohamed/Lloyd Toward a Theory of Minority Discourse: What is to be done? 10)Ahmad from In Theory:Classes, Nations, Literatures.
Copyright © 2025 Thriftbooks.com
Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information | Cookie Policy | Cookie Preferences | Accessibility Statement
ThriftBooks ® and the ThriftBooks ® logo are registered trademarks of Thrift Books Global, LLC
ThriftBooks ® and the ThriftBooks ® logo are registered trademarks of Thrift Books Global, LLC
