Postcolonial Literature

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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 VolumeCritical Context: Original Introductory EssaysCritical Readings: Original In-Depth EssaysFurther ReadingsDetailed BibliographyDetailed Bio of the EditorGeneral Subject Index Cover 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