Comparing Postcolonial Literatures

P. Murray

ISBN 10: 1349405345 / ISBN 13: 9781349405343

Published by Palgrave Macmillan UK Jun 2000, 2000

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Bringing together a range of critics working on the hispanic and francophone as well as anglophone post-colonial regions, this book aims to dislocate some of the commonly accepted cultural, linguistic and geographical boundaries that have previously informed post-colonial studies. Collected essays include: cross-cultural comparisons from areas as diverse as Africa, Ireland and Latin America; analysis of specific texts as sites of border conflict; and revisions of post-colonial theoretical frameworks. A timely questioning of the categories of a critical field at the point when it is becoming increasingly comparative, this volume seeks to suggest more dynamic ways of working in post-colonial cultural studies. 296 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Comparing Postcolonial Literatures
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK Jun 2000
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349405345
• ISBN 13: 9781349405343
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 140H x 17D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 376 grams

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Synopsis

Bringing together a range of critics working on the hispanic and francophone as well as anglophone post-colonial regions, this book aims to dislocate some of the commonly accepted cultural, linguistic and geographical boundaries that have previously informed post-colonial studies. Collected essays include: cross-cultural comparisons from areas as diverse as Africa, Ireland and Latin America; analysis of specific texts as sites of border conflict; and revisions of post-colonial theoretical frameworks. A timely questioning of the categories of a critical field at the point when it is becoming increasingly comparative, this volume seeks to suggest more dynamic ways of working in post-colonial cultural studies.

About the Author

NARA ARAUJO Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Havana, currently Visiting Professor, Universidad Autonama Metropolitana, Mexico City AIDAN ARROWSMITH Lecturer in Literary Studies, Staffordshire University CATHERINE DAVIES Professor of Spanish, University of Manchester SUSAN FORSYTH Ph.D. student, Christ Church College, Canterbury SAM HAIGH Lecturer in French Studies, University of Warwick WILSON HARRIS Distinguished writer and essayist LIAM HARTE Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies, St Mary's University College, London C.L. INNES Professor of Postcolonial Literatures, University of Kent WILLY MALEY Reader in English Literature, University of Glasgow DAVID MARRIOTT Lecturer, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London LANCE PETTITT Lecturer, St Mary's University College, London DAVID RICHARDS Senior Lecturer in English and Deputy Director of the African Studies Unit, University of Leeds KEITH RICHARDS Lecturer in Spanish, University of Leeds SUJALA SINGH Lecturer in English, University of Southampton GERRY SMYTH Lecturer in Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University GERALDINE STONEHAM Senior Lecturer, South Bank University JOHN THIEME Professor and Head of English Studies, South Bank University DENISE VERNON Teacher of Drama and Cultural Studies, University of Salford