Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English

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  • Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English Book Detail

  • Author : Poddar Prem Poddar
  • Release Date : 2019-08-07
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Genre : History, Modern
  • Pages : 688
  • ISBN 13 : 1474471714
  • File Size : 61,61 MB
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Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English by Poddar Prem Poddar PDF Summary

Book Description: This is the first reference guide to the political, cultural and economic histories that form the subject-matter of postcolonial literatures written in English.The focus of the Companion is principally on the histories of postcolonial literatures in the Anglophone world - Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, South-east Asia, Australia and New Zealand, the Pacific, the Caribbean and Canada. There are also long entries discussing the literatures and histories of those further areas that have also claimed the title 'postcolonial', notably Britain, East Asia, Ireland, Latin America and the United States. The Companion contains:*220 entries written by 150 acknowledged scholars of postcolonial history and literature;*covers major events, ideas, movements, and figures in postcolonial histories*long regional survey essays on historiography and women's histories. Each entry provides a summary of the historical event or topic and bibliographies of postcolonial literary works and histories. Extensive cross-references and indexes enable readers to locate particular literary texts in their relevant historical contexts, as well as to discover related literary texts and histories in other regions with ease.

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