Postcolonial Literature

'A pedagogically useful, critically responsible, and lucid guide to postcolonial literary studies.' - Aparajita Sagar, Purdue University, USA. 'Valuable secondary reading for courses on postcolonialism or world literature.' - Michael Chapman, Current Writing

This Guide analyses the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions of the postcolonial world. Criticism on works by writers such as Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie, is discussed to illustrate the themes and concepts essential to an understanding of postcolonial literature and the development of criticism in the fieldThis Guide analyses the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions of the postcolonial world. Criticism on works by writers such as Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie, is discussed to illustrate the themes and concepts essential to an understanding of postcolonial literature and the development of criticism in the field