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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.