Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction: situating the postcolonial
- Chapter 2 Postcolonial issues in performance
- Chapter 3 Alternative histories and writing back
- Chapter 4 Authorizing the self: postcolonial autobiographical writing
- Chapter 5 Situating the self: landscape and place
- Chapter 6 Appropriating the word: language and voice
- Chapter 7 Narrating the nation: form and genre
- Chapter 8 Rewriting her story: nation and gender
- Chapter 9 Rewriting the nation: acknowledging economic and cultural diversity
- Chapter 10 Transnational and black British writing: colonizing in reverse
- Chapter 11 Citizens of the world: reading postcolonial literature
- Notes
- Glossary of terms used (compiled by Kaori Nagai)
- Biographies of selected postcolonial writers (compiled by Kaori Nagai)
- Brief colonial histories: Australia, the Caribbean, East Africa, India and Pakistan, Ireland, West Africa (compiled by Kaori Nagai)
- Select bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction: situating the postcolonial
- Chapter 2 Postcolonial issues in performance
- Chapter 3 Alternative histories and writing back
- Chapter 4 Authorizing the self: postcolonial autobiographical writing
- Chapter 5 Situating the self: landscape and place
- Chapter 6 Appropriating the word: language and voice
- Chapter 7 Narrating the nation: form and genre
- Chapter 8 Rewriting her story: nation and gender
- Chapter 9 Rewriting the nation: acknowledging economic and cultural diversity
- Chapter 10 Transnational and black British writing: colonizing in reverse
- Chapter 11 Citizens of the world: reading postcolonial literature
- Notes
- Glossary of terms used (compiled by Kaori Nagai)
- Biographies of selected postcolonial writers (compiled by Kaori Nagai)
- Brief colonial histories: Australia, the Caribbean, East Africa, India and Pakistan, Ireland, West Africa (compiled by Kaori Nagai)
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007