La 4e de couverture indique : "Postcolonial life narratives" draws together two dynamic fields of contemporary literature and criticism, postcolonialism and life narrative, to create a new assemblage: postcolonial life narrative. Focusing in particular on testimonial narrative, …
"Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives, edited by Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Richard Walsh, brings together many of the most prominent figures at the interface between narratology and postcolonial criticism. While narrative theory has for …
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Algeria's independence, 'Polygraphies' is significant and timely in its focus on autobiographical writings by seven of the most prominent francophone women writers from Algeria today.
"What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T.S. Eliot to J.M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in twentieth- and twenty-first century English and Anglophone lit…
The postcolonial short story: contemporary essays
La 4e de couverture indique : "This new collection places the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies. In so doing, it also questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing upon short fiction from 1975 to the present day - the period during w…
"This book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodological assumptions of its dominant formations, and emerging from an investment in the future of postcolonial studies and a commitment to its basic premise; n…