Critics and Writers Speak: Revisioning Post-colonial Studies

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Igor Maver
Lexington Books, 2006 - Literary Criticism - 186 pages
This book of new critical essays and interviews with writers interrogates the current usage of the term and the category of the post-colonial as a theoretical concept, discourse and state of mind. By looking at contemporary writing in English throughout the world, it critically revisions the current practice of post-colonial studies and calls attention to its significant weaknesses.
 

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Contents

Introduction
1
ESSAYS
9
PostColonial Literatures in English ab origine ad futurum
11
Proteus Gertrude and the Post Colonial Rag
34
Reading Literatures in English without Theory
48
Intertextuality and Postcolonial Discourse in the Caribbean Region
56
The Case of South Africa
67
Reading Indigenous Life Narrative
85
Writing On in Monkey Beach
115
Moving Past the Post in Postcolonialism
126
Interviews
153
Interview with Peter Carey
155
Interview with Trinh T Minhha
160
Interview with the Jamaican Writer Opal Palmer Adisa
174
Index
183
About the Contributors
185

the Case of Tasmania
106

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About the author (2006)

Igor Maver is Professor of English at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

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