Description
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised into five cross-referenced sections, ''The Imperial Past'', ''The Colonial Present'', ''Theory and Practice'', ''Across the Disciplines'', and ''Across the World''. The chapters offer both country-specific and comparative approaches to current issues, offering a wide range of new and interesting perspectives. The Handbook reflects the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of postcolonial studies and reiterates its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past, in its multiple manifestations, and the contemporary globalized world. Taken together, these essays, the dialogues they pursue, and the editorial comments that surround them constitute nothing less than a blueprint for the future of a much-contested
Trade ReviewThe book is an important update on the current state of discussion in the field. * Dobrota Pucherova, Journal of Postcolonial Writing *
the book is bound to inspire postcolonial scholars to address in creative ways some of the important questions that face us now. * Christine Lorre-Johnston, Commonwealth Essays and Studies *
Table of ContentsSECTION ONE: THE IMPERIAL PAST; SECTION TWO: THE COLONIAL PRESENT; SECTION THREE: THEORY AND PRACTICE; SECTION FOUR: ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES; SECTION FIVE: ACROSS THE WORLD
