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Book SynopsisThis book of new essays investigates the category of the post-colonial as a theoretical concept, discourse, and state of mind. In an international forum of both literary critics and writers, these essays look at contemporary writing in English throughout the world in an attempt to revision the current critical practice of post-colonial studies. Structured as a dialogue between different views, Critics and Writers Speak will add to the self-reflexivity among post-colonial critics, extending the debate and stimulating dialogue about the future of post-colonial studies.
Trade ReviewIn this book by Igor Maver, a foremost thinker from post-socialist Slovenia, the term "post-colonial," once a household term with its detailed history of cosmetic whims, takes a vertiginous dip, seethes for a while, with other master signifiers, in the caldron of diasporic theory, to then resurface, humbled and changed utterly. -- Chantal Zabus, University of Paris XIII
Igor Maver's edited collection of essays and interviews makes an important contribution to the current debate on the future of postcolonial studies.... Maver strikes an admirable balance, acknowledging the accomplishments of post-colonial studies as well as pointing out its exhausted current status.... Both schoarls and students of literature in English will sharpen their sense of the history of the terminology and the issues facing post-colonial studies today by reading Maver's collection of essays and interviews. * Commonwealth, Autumn 2008, Vol 31, No 1 *
This lively, intelligent, and wide-ranging book is also very timely. Combining a judicious introduction, essays, and interviews, Critics and Writers Speak: Revisioning Post-Colonial Studies will help its readers to understand one of the most important developments in literary theory of the last twenty years. Charting the movement from post-colonialism understood as post-independence writing to post-colonialism understood as a set of discursive practices, Critics and Writers Speak exhibits the underlying coherence of its subject and forecasts many of its directions of future development. I recommend this book most highly. -- Karl F. Zender, University of California at Davis
Table of ContentsPart 1 Essays Chapter 2 Post-Colonial Literatures in English ab origine ad futurum Chapter 3 Proteus, Gertrude, and the Post Colonial Rag Chapter 4 Cannibal Rights: Intertextuality and Postcolonial Discourse in the Caribbean Region Chapter 4 Reading Literatures in English without Theory Chapter 6 Archaic Ambivalence: The Case of South Africa Chapter 7 Remembering Whiteness: Reading Indigenous Life Narrative Chapter 8 Recolonisation and Disinheritance: the Case of Tasmania Chapter 9 Here and There as Everywhere: Writing On in Monkey Beach Chapter 10 Maori Theater on Its Own Ground: Moving Past the 'Post' in Post-Colonialism Chapter 11 Sparring With Shadows, or Is There a Post-Colonial Child? Part 12 Interviews Chapter 13 'Magwitch' is Really My Ancestor': Interview with Peter Carey Chapter 14 Deep Vibrancy of Silence: Interview with Trinh T. Minh-ha Chapter 15 Interview with the Jamaican Writer Opal Palmer Adisa
