Post-colonial literatures: expanding the canon

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Post-Colonial Literatures challenges the emerging consensus on post-colonial literatures. The contributors discuss case studies of specific authors, and the role of literary study within multicultural societies.

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Full title :Post-colonial literatures : expanding the canon / edited by Deborah L. Madsen.

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Publication Date:1999.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Pluto Press
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:1999.

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Description:vii, 237 pages ; : 23 cm

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ISBN:0745315100, 9780745315102, 0745315151, 9780745315157, 0585433771, 9780585433776
oclc:ocm40881618
LC Classification:PR9080
Dewey Decimal:820.9/9171241

Beyond the Commonwealth : post-colonialism and American literature / Deborah L. Madsen -- Post-colonialism in the United States : diversity or hybridity / Karen Piper -- Ethical reading and resistant texts / Patricia Linton -- Fractures : written displacements in Canadian/US literary relations / Richard J. Lane -- The rhythm of difference : language and silence in The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and The piano / Marion Wynne-Davies -- Locating and celebrating difference : writing by South African and Aboriginal women writers / Gina Wisker -- Coming in from the margins : gender in contemporary Zimbabwean writing / Pauline Dodgson -- The memory of slavery in Fred D'Aguiar's Feeling the ghosts / Gail Low -- 'Versioning' the revolution : gender and politics in Merle Collins's Angel / Suzanne Scafe -- Erupting funk : the political style of Toni Morrison's Tar baby and The bluest eye / Alan Rice -- Afro-Hispanic literature and feminist theories : thinking ethics / Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal -- Chicano/a literature : 'an active interanimating of competing discourses' / Candida N. Hepworth -- Border theory and the canon / Debra A. Castillo -- Racialism and literation in Native American litera…

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American literature -- Minority authors Aufsatzsammlung Canon Canon (Literature) Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature) Commonwealth Commonwealth literature (English) Commonwealth literature (English) -- Hi… Criticism, interpretation, etc Décolonisation dans la littérature Decolonization in literature Englisch English Literature English literature -- Foreign countries English literature -- History and criti… English literature -- History and criti… English-speaking countries Ethnic groups in literature Ethnische Gruppe Groupes ethniques dans la littérature