Critics and Writers Speak: Revisioning Post-colonial StudiesIgor Maver 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. |
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 |
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About the Contributors | 185 |
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