This superb study explores the imaginative transformation of the city by African, Asian, Caribbean and South Pacific writers since the 1950s.
Explains why the post-colonial critique has altered forever the landscape of postmodern discourse. This work examines the displacement of the colonizer's legitimizing cultural authority and looks at the cultural and political boundaries which exist in gender, race, class and sex…
Explains why the post-colonial critique has altered forever the landscape of postmodern discourse. This work examines the displacement of the colonizer's legitimizing cultural authority and looks at the cultural and political boundaries which exist in gender, race, class and sex…
This text reassesses current approaches to postwar writing in Britain in light of ongoing debates within postcolonial studies about the legacy of imperialism and decolonisation, the cultural implications of globalisation and the strengthening of alternative conceptions of nation…
Places literary developments within an expanded conception of the legacy of imperialism and decolonisation. This radical reassessment shows how, after the Second World War, British national identity and culture was shaped in ways that still operate today. As empires declined, gl…