This book is an essential introduction to significant texts in postcolonial theory. It looks at seminal works in the ‘moments of their making’ and delineates the different threads that bind postcolonial studies. Each chapter presents a comprehensive discussion of a major text and contextualises it in the wake of contemporary themes and debates. The volume:
Studies major texts by foremost scholars —
Edward W. Said
,
Chinua Achebe
Albert Memmi
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Paul Carter
Homi Bhabha
Frantz Fanon
Ashis Nandy
Robert J. C. Young
Ngugi wa Thiongo
, and
Sara Suleri
Shifts focus from colonial experience to underlying principles of critical engagement
Uses accessible, jargon-free language
Focused, engaging and critically insightful, this book will be indispensable to students and scholars of literary and cultural studies, comparative literature, and postcolonial studies.