{"product_id":"postcolonial-literary-studies-9781421400181","title":"Postcolonial Literary Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt not only highlights the development and transformation of postcolonial literary study but also, by mapping out new directions of study, considers its continual significance and expansion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The single best anthology for studying postcolonialism and literature.\" (Susan Strehle, Binghamton University)\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eThe First Thirty Years of Postcolonial Literary Scholarship: The Continuing Importance of a Discipline\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Paradigms\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The Margin at the Center: On Testimonio (Testimonial Narrative)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Writing in the Shit: Beckett, Nationalism, and the Colonial Subject\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Imperial Triangles: Mark Twain's Foreign Affairs\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Fiction and the Law: Recent Inscriptions of Gayness in South Africa\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Decolonizing Culture: Toward a Theory for Postcolonial Women's Texts\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Re-Membering Hispaniola: Edwidge Danticat's\u003ci\u003e The Farming of Bones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Redefining Paris: Trans-Modernity and Francophone African Migritude Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Postcolonial Africa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Smoke of the Savannah: Traveling Modernity in Sembène Ousmane's\u003ci\u003e God's Bits of Wood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Mourning the Postapartheid State Already? The Poetics of Loss in Zakes Mda's\u003ci\u003e Ways of Dying\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Postnation: The Cultural Geographies of Colonial, Neocolonial, and Postnational Space\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Truth, Telling, Questioning: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Antjie Krog's \u003ci\u003eCountry of My Skull\u003c\/i\u003e, and Literature after Apartheid\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. The Pastoral Promise and the Political Imperative: The \u003ci\u003ePlaasroman\u003c\/i\u003e Tradition in an Era of Land Reform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Postcolonial India\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Leading History by the Nose: The Turn to the Eighteenth Century in Midnight's Children\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. The Feminist Plot and the Nationalist Allegory: Home and World in Two Indian Women's Novels in English\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. Memory, Identity, Patriarchy: Projecting a Past in the Memoirs of Sara Suleri and Michael Ondaatje\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. Figures of Colonial Resistance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: New Directions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. Introduction: Worldly English\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18. Narrative in Prison: Stories from the Palestinian \u003ci\u003eIntifada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19. Globalization, Postcoloniality, and the Problem of Literary Studies in \u003ci\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20. National Narratives, Postnational Narration\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21. Comic Visions and Revisions in the Work of Lynda Barry and Marjane Satrapi\u003cbr\u003eChapter 22. Tenderness: A Mediator of Identity and Gender Construction in Politics\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529521439063,"sku":"9781421400181","price":59.92,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421400181.jpg?v=1731875943","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/postcolonial-literary-studies-9781421400181","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}