Post-Colonial Studies

This best selling key guide, now in its second edition, provides an essential key to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism; explaining what it is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities. As a subject, post-colonial studies stands at the intersection of debates about race, colonialism, gender, politics and language. Key topics covered include:

• Borderlands
• Transnational literatures
• Neo imperialism
• Neo liberalism
• Eco feminism.

Post Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts is fully updated and cross referenced throughout. With additional further reading this book has everything for students and anyone keen to learn more about this fascinating subject.

An essential guide to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism. A comprehensive glossary has extensive cross-referencing, a bibliography of essential writings and an easy-to-use A-Z format.

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The shifting nature of this field and the evolving or changing meaning of its terminology and concepts make this dictionary a welcome addition. It will pave a smoother research path for student and scholars pursuing the issues that characterize postcolonial theory.

Bill Ashcroft teaches at the University of Hong Kong and the University of NSW, Gareth Griffiths at the University of Western Australia and Helen Tiffin at Queen’s University, Canada. They are the editors of The Post Colonial Studies Reader and the authors of The Empire Writes Back, both published by Routledge.