Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

<em>Colonial and Postcolonial Literature</em> is the leading critical overview of and historical introduction to colonial and postcolonial literary studies. Highly praised from the time of its first publication for its lucidity breadth and insight the book has itself played a crucial part in founding and shaping this rapidly expanding field. The author an internationally renowned postcolonial critic provides a broad contextualizing narrative about the evolution of colonial and postcolonial writing in English. Illuminating close readings of texts by a wide variety of writers--from Kipling and Conrad through to Kincaid from Ngugi to Noonuccal and Naipaul--explicate key theoretical terms such as subaltern colonial resistance writing back and hybridity. This revised edition includes new critiques of postcolonial women's writing an expanded and fully annotated bibliography and a new chapter and conclusion on postcolonialism exploring keynote debates in the field relating to sexuality transnationalism and local resistance.