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. |
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Proteus Gertrude and the Post Colonial Rag | 34 |
Reading Literatures in English without Theory | 48 |
The Case of South Africa | 67 |
Copyright | |
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