English Postcoloniality
Literatures from Around the World
Published on 30. April 1996
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-313-28854-8 (ISBN)
Description
As the British empire expanded throughout the world, the English language played an important role in power relations between Britain and its colonies. English was used as a colonizing agent to suppress the indigenous cultures of various peoples and to make them subject to British rule. With the end of World War II, many countries became gradually decolonized, and their indigenous cultures experienced a renaissance. Colonial mores and power systems clashed and combined with indigenous traditions to create postcolonial texts.
This volume treats postcoloniality as a process of cultural and linguistic interplay, in which British culture initially suppressed indigenous cultures and later combined with them after the decline of the British empire. The first section of this book provides an introductory overview of English postcoloniality. This section is followed by chapters discussing postcoloniality and literature from an historical perspective in particular countries around the world. The third section gives special attention to the literature and culture of indigenous peoples. A selected bibliography concludes the work.
This volume treats postcoloniality as a process of cultural and linguistic interplay, in which British culture initially suppressed indigenous cultures and later combined with them after the decline of the British empire. The first section of this book provides an introductory overview of English postcoloniality. This section is followed by chapters discussing postcoloniality and literature from an historical perspective in particular countries around the world. The third section gives special attention to the literature and culture of indigenous peoples. A selected bibliography concludes the work.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
514 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-28854-8 (9780313288548)
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RADHIKA MOHANRAM is Lecturer in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, where she teaches gender and postcolonial theory. She has published widely on postcolonial theory and literature and is currently finishing a book on Edith Wharton and Diasporic subjectivity.
GITA RAJAN teaches Victorian literature and postcolonial discourse at Fairfield University./e She was an Andrew Mellon Fellow in Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and had a fellowship from Yale Center for British Art.
GITA RAJAN teaches Victorian literature and postcolonial discourse at Fairfield University./e She was an Andrew Mellon Fellow in Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and had a fellowship from Yale Center for British Art.
Content
General Introduction
Introduction: The Concept of English Postcoloniality by Gita Rajan and Radhika Mohanram
A Postcolonial Tale by Joy Harjo
Historical Survey
Out of the Center: Thoughts on the Postcolonial Literatures of Australia and New Zealand by Ralph Crane
"A Terrible Beauty is Born": Irish Literature as a Paradigm for the Formation of Postcolonial Literatures by Ian Crump
Caribbean Writing in English: Intimations of a Historical Nightmare by P.S. Chauhan
Postcolonial East African Literature: Towards a Literature of the People, for the People, and by the People by Jeannine DeLombard
South African Writing in English by John C. Hawley
Between Cultures: Insights on West African Writing in English by Anthonia Kalu
Language, Identity, and Nation in Postcolonial Indian English Literature by Aparna Dharwadker and Vinay Dharwadker
Prolegomena to the Study of Pakistani English and Pakistani Writing in English by Alamgir Hashmi
Canadian Writing in English and Multiculturalism by Leon Litvack
Historical Review of African-American Literature by Christopher Wise and Cora Agatucci
Indigenous Literature
Margin or Centre? "Let me tell you! In the Land of my Ancestors I am the Centre": Indigenous Writing in Aotearoa by Powhiri Wharemarama Rika-Heke
On Women's Writings in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Patricia Grace, Keri Hulme, Cathie Dunsford by Sigrid Markmann
Nesting in the Ruins by Norma Wilson
Aboriginal Writing: Twisting the Colonial Super-narrative by Hugh Webb
Bibliography of Further Reading
Index
Introduction: The Concept of English Postcoloniality by Gita Rajan and Radhika Mohanram
A Postcolonial Tale by Joy Harjo
Historical Survey
Out of the Center: Thoughts on the Postcolonial Literatures of Australia and New Zealand by Ralph Crane
"A Terrible Beauty is Born": Irish Literature as a Paradigm for the Formation of Postcolonial Literatures by Ian Crump
Caribbean Writing in English: Intimations of a Historical Nightmare by P.S. Chauhan
Postcolonial East African Literature: Towards a Literature of the People, for the People, and by the People by Jeannine DeLombard
South African Writing in English by John C. Hawley
Between Cultures: Insights on West African Writing in English by Anthonia Kalu
Language, Identity, and Nation in Postcolonial Indian English Literature by Aparna Dharwadker and Vinay Dharwadker
Prolegomena to the Study of Pakistani English and Pakistani Writing in English by Alamgir Hashmi
Canadian Writing in English and Multiculturalism by Leon Litvack
Historical Review of African-American Literature by Christopher Wise and Cora Agatucci
Indigenous Literature
Margin or Centre? "Let me tell you! In the Land of my Ancestors I am the Centre": Indigenous Writing in Aotearoa by Powhiri Wharemarama Rika-Heke
On Women's Writings in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Patricia Grace, Keri Hulme, Cathie Dunsford by Sigrid Markmann
Nesting in the Ruins by Norma Wilson
Aboriginal Writing: Twisting the Colonial Super-narrative by Hugh Webb
Bibliography of Further Reading
Index