Post-colonial Theory and English Literature - A Reader (Paperback)

Unlike other readers, this book takes eight important literary texts and provides some of the most significant post-colonial readings of them published in the last fifteen years. Topics include cannibalism, slavery, the harem, missionary work, gender, nationalism and the Rushdie affair. The book offers practical examples of applying theoretical arguments to specific texts. Key features: * Provides three or four cutting edge essays on each of the following texts: Shakespeare's The Tempest; Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; Bronte's Jane Eyre; Kipling's Kim, Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Joyce's Ulysses; Forster's A Passage to India; Rushdie's The Satanic Verses

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 1999
First published:	June 1999
Editors:	Peter Childs
Dimensions:	244 x 172 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	456
ISBN-13:	978-0-7486-1068-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-7486-1068-5
Barcode:	9780748610686

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