A Concise Companion To Postcolonial Literature David Bradshaweds by David Bradshaw(eds.) 9781405135030, 9781444317879, 1405135034, 1444317873 instant download after payment.

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

Content:
Chapter 1 Framing Identities (pages 9–28): David Richards
Chapter 2 Orality and Literacy (pages 29–55): G. N. Devy and Duncan Brown
Chapter 3 The Politics of Rewriting (pages 56–77): C. L. Innes
Chapter 4 Postcolonial Translations (pages 78–96): Susan Bassnett
Chapter 5 Nation and Nationalisms (pages 97–119): John McLeod
Chapter 6 Feminism and Womanism (pages 120–140): Nana Wilson?Tagoe
Chapter 7 Cartographies and Visualization (pages 141–161): David Howard
Chapter 8 Marginality: Representations of Subalternity, Aboriginality and Race (pages 162–181): Stephen Morton
Chapter 9 Anthropology and Postcolonialism (pages 182–203): Will Rea
Chapter 10 Publishing Histories (pages 204–228): Gail Low