The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English

The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English
Author: C. L. Innes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2007-10-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521833400

The past century has witnessed the extraordinary flowering of fiction, poetry and drama from countries previously colonised by Britain, an output which has changed the map of English literature. This introduction, from a leading figure in the field, explores a wide range of Anglophone post-colonial writing from Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, India, Ireland and Britain. Lyn Innes compares the ways in which authors shape communal identities and interrogate the values and representations of peoples in newly independent nations. Placing its emphasis on literary rather than theoretical texts, this book offers detailed discussion of many internationally renowned authors, including James Joyce, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, Les Murray and Derek Walcott. It also includes historical surveys of the main countries discussed, a glossary, and biographical notes on major authors. Lyn Innes provides a rich and subtle guide to a vast array of authors and texts from a wide range of sites.

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies
Author: Neil Lazarus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2004-07-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521534185

Offers a lucid introduction to postcolonial studies, one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.

The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel
Author: Ato Quayson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2016
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107132819

This Companion provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Covering subjects from disability and diaspora to the sublime and the city, this Companion reveals the myriad traditions that have shaped the postcolonial literary landscape.

Postcolonial Poetry in English

Postcolonial Poetry in English
Author: Rajeev S. Patke
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2006-06-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191538388

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. Postcolonial Poetry in English provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of English poetry in all the regions that were once part of the British Empire. The idea of postcolonial poetry is held together by three factors: the global community constituted by English; the creative possibilities accessible through English; and patterns of literary development common to regions with a history of recent decolonization. In showing how diverse poetic traditions in English evolved from dependency to varying degrees of cultural self-confidence, the book answers two broad questions: how is postcolonial studies relevant to the interpretation of poetry, and how does poetry contribute to our idea of postcolonial writing? The book is divided into three parts: the first works out a method of analysis based on recent publications of outstanding interest; the second narrates the development of poetic traditions in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, and the settler colonies of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand; the third analyses key motifs, such as the struggle for minority self-representation; the cultural politics of gender, modernism, and postmodernity; and the experience of migration and self-exile in contemporary Anglophone societies. Postcolonial Poetry in English provides a succinct and wide-ranging introduction to some of the most exciting poetic writing of the twentieth century. It is ideally suited for readers interested in world writing in English, contemporary literature, postcolonial writing, cultural studies, and postmodern culture.

The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature

The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature
Author: Ato Quayson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2012-01-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781316184264

Postcolonial studies is attentive to cultural differences, marginalisation and exclusion. Such studies pay equal attention to the lives and conditions of various racial minorities in the West, as well as to regional, indigenous forms of representation around the world as being distinct from a dominant Western tradition. With the consolidation of the field in the past forty years, the need to establish the terms by which we might understand the sources of postcolonial literary history is more urgent now than ever before. The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature is the first major collaborative overview of the field. A mix of geographic and thematic chapters allows for different viewpoints on postcolonial literary history. Chapters cover the most important national traditions, as well as more comparative geographical and thematic frameworks. This major reference work will set the future agenda for the field, whilst also synthesising its development for scholars and students.

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature
Author: Ato Quayson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2021-01-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108924956

This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile rubric of tragedy. He draws from many key works – Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Medea, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear – to establish the main contours of tragedy. Quayson uses Shakespeare's Othello, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Tayeb Salih, Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee to qualify and expand the purview and terms by which Western tragedy has long been understood. Drawing on key texts such as The Poetics and The Nicomachean Ethics, and augmenting them with Frantz Fanon and the Akan concept of musuo (taboo), Quayson formulates a supple, insightful new theory of ethical choice and the impediments against it. This is a major book from a leading critic in literary studies.

Postcolonial Literature

Postcolonial Literature
Author: Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2008
Genre: English literature
ISBN: 9788131713730

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability
Author: Clare Barker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107087821

Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.

The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie

The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie
Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2007-08-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139827510

Salman Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious authoritarianism. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to his entire oeuvre. Part I provides thematic readings of Rushdie and his work, with chapters on how Bollywood films are intertextual with the fiction, the place of family and gender in the work, the influence of English writing and reflections on the fatwa. Part II discusses Rushdie's importance for postcolonial writing and provides detailed interpretations of his fiction. In one volume, this book provides a stimulating introduction to the author and his work in a range of expert essays and readings. With its detailed chronology of Rushdie's life and a comprehensive bibliography of further reading, this volume will be invaluable to undergraduates studying Rushdie and to the general reader interested in his work.

The Cambridge Introduction to Francophone Literature

The Cambridge Introduction to Francophone Literature
Author: Patrick Corcoran
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2007-10-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521849715

The literature of French-speaking countries forms a distinct body of work quite separate from literature written in France itself, offering a passionate creative engagement with their postcolonial cultures. This book provides an introduction to the literatures that have emerged in the French-speaking countries and regions of the world in recent decades, illustrating their astonishing breadth and diversity, and exploring their constant state of tension with the literature of France. The study opens with a wide-ranging discussion of the idea of francophonie. Each chapter then provides readers with historical background to a particular region and identifies the key issues that have influenced the emergence of a literature in French, before going on to examine in detail a selection of the major writers. These case studies tackle many of the key authors of the francophone world, as well as authors writing today.