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Taking an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to literature from 1947 to the present day, this concise companion is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of postcolonial literature and culture.

• An indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of Postcolonialism, bringing together 10 original essays from leading international scholars including C. L. Innes and Susan Bassnett
• Explains the ideas and practises that emerged from the dismantling of European empires
• Explores the ways in which these ideas and practices influenced the period's keynote concerns, such as race, culture, and identity; literary and cultural translations; and the politics of resistance
• Chapters cover the fields of identity studies, orality and literacy, nationalisms, feminism, anthropology and cultural criticism, the politics of rewriting, new geographies, publishing and marketing, translation studies.
• Features a useful Chronology of the period, thorough general bibliography, and guides to further reading

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In a series of newly-commissioned essays, leading international scholars, including C.L.Innes and Susan Bassnett, seek to explore and explain the ideas and practices that have emerged from the dismantling of European empires, and the impact that these have had on Postcolonial literatures and cultures. This authoritative Companion investigates the key concerns of literature of this period, such as race, culture, and identity; literary and cultural translations; and the politics of resistance. Individual chapters focus on a broad-range of subjects such as identity studies, orality and literacy, nationalisms, feminism, anthropology and cultural criticism, the politics of rewriting, new geographies, publishing and marketing, translation studies.

A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of Postcolonialism.

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List of Illustrations vii  
Notes on Contributors viii
 
Introduction 1
 Shirley Chew
 
1 Framing Identities 9
 David Richards
 
2 Orality and Literacy 29
 
Part 1: India G.N. Devy
 
Part 2: South Africa Duncan Brown
 
3 The Politics of Rewriting 56
 C.L. Innes
 
4 Postcolonial Translations 78
 Susan Bassnett
 
5 Nation and Nationalisms 97
 John McLeod
 
6 Feminism and Womanism 120
 Nana Wilson-Tagoe
 
7 Cartographies and Visualization 141
 David Howard
 
8 Marginality: Representations of Subalternity, Aboriginality and Race 162
 Stephen Morton
 
9 Anthropology and Postcolonialism 182
 Will Rea
 
10 Publishing Histories 204
 Gail Low
 
Index 229

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