A companion to postcolonial studies / edited by Henry Schwarz and Sangeeta Ray.

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This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947.
Ranges widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study Presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia Provides clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European colonization Features introductory essays on the major thinkers and intellectual schools that have informed strategies of national liberation worldwide Offers an incisive summary of the long history and theory of modern European colonization in local detail and global scale

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CHOICE Review

Postcolonial studies--which deals with the culture and politics that emerge in countries struggling against colonialism and neocolonialism in homeland and diaspora--has in the past two decades become an indispensable part of English studies. One of the field's unusual features is the extent to which it has been shaped by collections of original essays--e.g., Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin's The Empire Writes Back (CH Feb'90); Post-Colonial Literatures, ed. by Deborah Madsen (CH Jan'00). The present volume is one of the largest and most intellectually ambitious collections of essays to emerge in the past decade. Its 30 essays touch on history and theory; on postcolonial culture as both a local and global phenomenon; and on the impact of postcolonial theory on the field within which it is nestled, that of literary and cultural theory. Most of the essays are satisfactory or good; several will become assigned readings on the topics they cover: Neil Larsen on imperialism and colonialism, Jenny Sharpe on postcolonialism and US multiculturalism, Crystal Bartolovich on global capital and transnationalism, Supriya Nair on creolization, Ali Behdad on diasporic differences, and Dipesh Chakrabarty on subaltern studies. Highly recommended, upper-division undergraduates and above in social sciences and humanities. K. Tololyan Wesleyan University