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Colonial and postcolonial literature, migrant metaphors, Elleke Boehmer

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-342) and index

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non fiction

Colonial and postcolonial literature

electronic resource

bibliography

Elleke Boehmer

migrant metaphors

An introduction to colonial and postcolonial writing in English. The revised edition includes a new chapter surveying postcolonialism in the twenty-first century and a fully annotated bibliography., Colonial and Postcolonial Literature is the leading critical overview of and historical introduction to colonial and postcolonial literary studies. Highly praised from the time of its first publication for its lucidity, breadth, and insight, the book has itself played a crucial part in founding and shaping this rapidly expanding field. The author, an internationally renowned postcolonial critic, provides a broad contextualizing narrative about the evolution of colonial and postcolonial writing in English. Illuminating close readings of texts by a wide variety of writers - from Kipling and Conrad through to Kincaid, from Ngugi to Noonuccal and Naipaul - explicate key theoretical terms such as 'subaltern', 'colonial resistance', 'writing back', and 'hybridity'. This revised edition includes new critiques of postcolonial women's writing, an expanded and fully annotated bibliography, and a new chapter and conclusion on postcolonialism exploring keynote debates in the field relating to sexuality, transnationalism, and local resistance