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Linked Histories

Postcolonial Studies in a Globalized World

Pamela McCallum editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Calgary Press

Published:30th Mar '06

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During the past two decades, postcolonial studies has proven to be one of the fastest growing fields of critical inquiry. Postcolonialism has established itself as an important specialist field within literature disciplines, and it has strong resonances across other disciplines (history, sociology, anthropology, geography, cultural studies) and is a field which has inspired genuinely interdisciplinary research.

Linked Histories, collected from the journal ARIEL (A Review of International English Literature), take up some of the most pressing issues in postcolonial debates: the challenges which new theories of globalization present for postcolonial studies, the difficulties of rethinking how ""marginality"" might be defined in a new globalized world, the problems of imagining social transformation within globalization. The editors' goal in bringing together this collection of articles is not to provide any definitive statement on these urgent questions; rather, it is to assemble a group of essays which ""think through"" the issues and which therefore has the potential to move the discipline forward.

The contributors represented include a balance of senior scholars with international reputations and scholars who represent the next generation.

ISBN: 9781552380888

Dimensions: 226mm x 152mm x 17mm

Weight: 417g

268 pages