Engagements with Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-62662-8 (ISBN)
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Each chapter is framed by a postcolonial author’s own literary ‘engagement’. Case studies on Chinua Achebe, Kamau Brathwaite, Derek Walcott, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Junot Díaz, Jean Rhys, Hari Kunzru, Arundhati Roy, and J. M. Coetzee elucidate each chapter’s central concepts and theme: colonial subjects and rebels; nations and nationalism after decolonisation; postcolonial difference; and subaltern representation. In this book, Lorna Burns tracks the evolution of postcolonial theory from anti-colonialism (Albert Memmi and Frantz Fanon) to the poststructuralist first-wave (Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, and Homi Bhabha), the Marxist counter-response (Aijaz Ahmad and Benita Parry), and, finally, looks ahead to new directions in postcolonial theory.
Aimed at students and scholars who are new to postcolonialism, as well as those returning to it for fresh insights and inspiration, this book engages with the complexity of both postcolonial theory and literature to furnish the reader with a fuller understanding of their significance and value, as well as the connections to be forged between.
Lorna Burns is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures in the School of English at the University of St Andrews, UK. She is the author of Postcolonialism After World Literature: Relation, Equality, Dissent (2019) and Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze: Literature Between Postcolonialism and Post-continental Philosophy (2012).
Acknowledgments; Introduction;1. Colonial Subjects and Rebels: Reading the Colony in Postcolonial Literature and Theory; 2. Postcolonial Nations and Nationalism: Writing the Long History of Decolonisation; 3. On Stereotypes, Mimicry, and a Postcolonial Concept of Difference; 4. The Subaltern and the Second-Wave in Postcolonial Theory and Literature; 5. Case Study: A Postcolonial Engagement with Omeros; Works Cited; Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.5.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Engagements with Literature |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
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| ISBN-10 | 1-032-62662-3 / 1032626623 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-62662-8 / 9781032626628 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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