Postcolonial Locations

<p><em>Postcolonial Locations</em> seeks to clarify the meaning of ‘the postcolonial’ through close textual readings and prioritises material and located readings over more abstract theoretical discussions; it seeks to re-orient the field by providing practical explorations of what the discipline is for. The book begins with an introduction of the key theoretical debates in the field – between the universal and the particular; the global and the local – but it then goes on to demonstrate via a series of close textual readings that these distinctions are not always useful and that we can achieve a more comprehensive and complete reading of the multiple times places and texts in which colonial power is both exerted and fought. </p><p>An engaging and comprehensive guide to contemporary postcolonial studies this book is essential reading for students as well as professors.</p>