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The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies

Graham Huggan editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:12th Sep '13

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The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised into five cross-referenced sections, 'The Imperial Past', 'The Colonial Present', 'Theory and Practice', 'Across the Disciplines', and 'Across the World'. The chapters offer both country-specific and comparative approaches to current issues, offering a wide range of new and interesting perspectives. The Handbook reflects the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of postcolonial studies and reiterates its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past--in its multiple manifestations-- and the contemporary globalized world. Taken together, these essays, the dialogues they pursue, and the editorial comments that surround them constitute nothing less than a blueprint for the future of a much-contested but intellectually vibrant and politically engaged field.

The book is an important update on the current state of discussion in the field. * Dobrota Pucherova, Journal of Postcolonial Writing *
the book is bound to inspire postcolonial scholars to address in creative ways some of the important questions that face us now. * Christine Lorre-Johnston, Commonwealth Essays and Studies *

ISBN: 9780199588251

Dimensions: 247mm x 182mm x 51mm

Weight: 1454g

752 pages