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The Post-colonial Studies Reader
 
 
The Post-colonial Studies Reader (Paperback)
by Bill Ashcroft (Editor) "The extracts in this section indicate something of the historical provenance, the general theoretical directions and the important debates which have featured in post-colonial theory..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 526 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge (22 Dec 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415096227
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415096225
  • Product Dimensions: 24.9 x 17.9 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,090 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Post-Colonial Studies Reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts in post-colonial theory and criticism yet compiled. This collection covers a huge range of topics and issues, and features nearly ninety of the most widely read pieces of writing. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader reflects the exciting diversity of work in the field and the vibrancy of anti-imperialist writing both within and without the metropolitan centres. The fourteen sections cover: BL Issues and Debates BL Ethnicity and Indigeneity BL Universality and Difference BL Feminism and Post-Colonialism BL Textual Representation and Resistance BL Language BL The Body and Performance BL Postmodernism and Post-colonialism BL History BL Place BL Nationalism BL Education BL Hybridity BL Production and Consumption Contributors include all the leading figures in the area of post-colonial writing, theory and criticism (such as Franz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ngugui wa Thiong'o, Homi Bhabha, Derek Walcott, Edward Said, and Trinh T. Minh-ha) as well as less established critics and new names to the discourse. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader will be a compilation no bookshelf should be without.

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This exhaustive collection of key texts in post-colonial theory and criticism covers a huge range of topics and features nearly ninety of the most widely read pieces of post-colonial writing. Contributors include Frantz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Gayatri Spivak, Ngugui wa Thiong'o, Homi Bhabha, Derek Walcott, Edward Said and Trinh T. Minh-ha.

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