Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it.
Critical Insights: Post-Colonial Literature will be global in scope, representing work from Asia, Africa and India and will include essays on authors including Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of ""Works Cited,"" along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources:
- About This Volume
- Critical Context: Original Introductory Essays
- Critical Readings: Original In-Depth Essays
- Further Readings
- Detailed Bibliography
- Detailed Bio of the Editor
- General Subject Index
Author(s): Jeremiah J Garsha (Editor)
Series: Critical Insights
Edition: 1
Publisher: Salem Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 300
Tags: Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Postcolonialsim
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Critical Insights: Postcolonial Literature
Contents
About this Volume
On Postcolonial Literature: Ideological and Generational Shifts South of the Sahara
CRITICAL CONTEXTS
Postcolonial Comics: Representing the Subaltern
Postcolonial Tempest: A Survey of Postcolonial Reception and Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Emergent and Divergent Voices: African and African American Women Writers
Suffering and “Sacrificiality” in Postcolonial African Literature
CRITICAL READINGS
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from a Postcolonial Perspective
Disabled Bodies Matter: Rohinton Mistry and the Politics of Embodiment
Vyankatesh Madgulkar: A Thematic Signature of Postcolonial India Through the Changing Construction of the Rural Structure
Obliteration or Assimilation? Culture Clashin Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Arundhati Roy’s THE God of Small Things
The Rhetorization of the Abject’s Grammatical Positionality
Michel Foucault and Postcolonial Studies: Countering Foreign Domination Through the Care of the Self in George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin
Constantine Cavafy as a Postcolonial Poet: “A Photograph”
“An Eviction of Sorts”: Language, Race, and Colonial Liminality in Ireland
The Hawaiian Television Cop Show
Raced Subjectivity and Anxiety in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric
RESOURCES
Further Reading
Bibliography
About the Editor
Contributors
Index
