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Juan, E. San. Beyond postcolonial theory. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

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Huddart, David. Postcolonial theory and autobiography. New York: Routledge, 2007.

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Postcolonial theories. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Postcolonial studies and the literary: Theory, interpretation and the novel. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Sorensen, Eli Park. Postcolonial studies and the literary: Theory, interpretation and the novel. Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Sorensen, Eli Park. Postcolonial studies and the literary: Theory, interpretation and the novel. Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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editor, Schwarz Henry, Villacañas Berlanga, J. L., editor, Moreiras Alberto editor, and Shemak April Ann editor, eds. Encyclopedia of postcolonial studies. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.

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The postcolonial studies dictionary. Hoboken: Wiley, 2015.

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Postcolonial literatures and Deleuze: Colonial pasts, differential futures. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Conversations in postcolonial thought. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Literature's sensuous geographies: Postcolonial matters of place. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Brillenburg Wurth, Kiene, and Ann Rigney. The Life of Texts. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463720830.

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This innovative introduction to literary studies takes 'the life of texts' as its overarching frame. It provides a conceptual and methodological toolbox for analysing novels, poems, and all sorts of other texts as they circulate in oral, print, and digital form. It shows how texts inspire each other, and how stories migrate across media. It explains why literature has been interpreted in different ways across time. Finally, it asks why some texts fascinate people so much that they are reproduced and passed on to others in the form of new editions, in adaptations to film and theatre, and, last but not least, in the ways we look at the world and act out our lives. The Life of Texts is designed around particular issues rather than the history of the discipline as such. Each chapter concentrates on a different aspect of 'the life of texts' and introduces the key debates and concepts relevant to its study. The issues discussed range from aesthetics and narrative to intertextuality and intermediality, from reading practices to hermeneutics and semiotics, popular culture to literary canonisation, postcolonial criticism to cultural memory. Key concepts and schools in the field have been highlighted in the text and then collected in a glossary for ease of reference. All chapters are richly illustrated with examples from different language areas.
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POSTCOLONIAL THEORY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Routledge, 2007.

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(Editor), H. Adlai Murdoch, and Anne Donadey (Editor), eds. Postcolonial Theory And Francophone Literary Studies. University Press of Florida, 2004.

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Huddart, David. Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Huddart, David. Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography. Taylor & Francis Group, 2008.

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Huddart, David. Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography. Taylor & Francis Group, 2008.

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Huddart, David. Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography. Taylor & Francis Group, 2008.

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Ramone, Jenni. Postcolonial Theories. Red Globe Press, 2011.

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Literary Criticism, Critical Theory and Postcolonial African Literature: None. Owerri, Nigeria: Springfield Publishers,2007, 2007.

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Eglinton, Yonge. Postcolonial Literary Criticism : An Introductory Handbook: (Textual Matters Literary Theory) (Volume 2). Independently Published, 2019.

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Sorensen, E. Postcolonial Studies and the Literary: Theory, Interpretation and the Novel. Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 2010.

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Sorensen, E. Postcolonial Studies and the Literary: Theory, Interpretation and the Novel. Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 2010.

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Ray, Sangeeta, Jose Luis Villacanas Berlanga, Henry Schwarz, Alberto Moreiras, and April Shemak. Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Wiley & Sons, Limited, John, 2016.

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Abu-Manneh, Bashir. After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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Abu-Manneh, Bashir. After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century. University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, 2018.

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After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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Nayar, Pramod K. Postcolonial Studies Dictionary. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2015.

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Nayar, Pramod K. Postcolonial Studies Dictionary. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2015.

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Nayar, Pramod K. Postcolonial Studies Dictionary. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2015.

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Nayar, Pramod K. Postcolonial Studies Dictionary. Wiley & Sons, Limited, John, 2016.

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Nayar, Pramod K. Postcolonial Studies Dictionary. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2015.

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Burns, Lorna, and Birgit M. Kaiser. Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze: Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Quayson, Ato. Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Quayson, Ato. Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Quayson, Ato. Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Quayson, Ato. Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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McCormack, Donna. Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.

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Queer Postcolonial Narratives And The Ethics Of Witnessing. Continuum, 2013.

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Buchanan, Ian. A Dictionary of Critical Theory. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780198794790.001.0001.

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Over 750 entriesThe most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available, covering the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural studies, gender studies, film studies, literary theory, hermeneutics, historical materialism, Internet studies, and sociopolitical critical theory. It explains complex theoretical discourses, such as Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, and postmodernism clearly and provides biographies of figures who have influenced the discipline, such as Deleuze and Foucault.This new edition has been updated to extend coverage of diaspora, race, and postcolonial theory, and of queer and sexuality studies, ensuring that it remains invaluable for students of literary and cultural studies and anyone studying a humanities subject requiring a knowledge of theory.
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Nita. Postcolonial Masquerades: Culture and Politics in Literature, Film, Video, and Photography (Literary Criticism Andcultural Theory: the Interaction of Text and Society). Routledge, 2001.

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Forter, Greg. Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198830436.001.0001.

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Postcolonial historical fiction offers readers valuable resources for thinking the prehistory of our present. The genre’s treatment of colonialism as geographically omnivorous yet temporally “out of joint” with itself gives it a special purchase on the continuities between the colonial era and our own. These features also enable the genre to distill from our colonial pasts the evanescent, utopian intimations of a properly postcolonial future. Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction arrives at these insights by juxtaposing novels from the Atlantic world with books from the Indian subcontinent. Attending to the links across these regions, Forter develops luminous readings of novels by Patrick Chamoiseau, J. G. Farrell, Amitav Ghosh, Marlon James, Hari Kunzru, Toni Morrison, Marlene van Niekerk, Arundhati Roy, Kamila Shamsie, and Barry Unsworth. He shows how these works not only transform our understanding of the colonial past and the futures that might issue from it, but also contribute to pressing debates in postcolonial theory—debates about the politics of literary forms, the links between cycles of capital accumulation and the emergence of new genres, the meaning of “working through” traumas in the postcolonial context, the relationship between colonial and panoptical power, the continued salience of hybridity and mimicry for the study of colonialism, and the tension between national liberation struggles and transnational forms of solidarity. Beautifully written and meticulously theorized, Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction will be of interest to students of world literature, Marxist critics, postcolonial theorists, and thinkers of the utopian.
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Kröller, Eva-Marie. Literary Histories. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199679775.003.0038.

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This chapter discusses national literary histories in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific and summarises the book's main findings regarding the construction and revision of narratives of national identity since 1950. In colonial and postcolonial cultures, literary history is often based on a paradox that says much about their evolving sense of collective identity, but perhaps even more about the strains within it. The chapter considers the complications typical of postcolonial literary history by focusing on the conflict between collective celebration and its refutation. It examines three issues relating to the histories of English-language fiction in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific: problems of chronology and beginnings, with a special emphasis on Indigenous peoples; the role of the cultural elite and the history wars in the Australian context; and the influence of postcolonial networks on historical methodology.
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Wimbush, Antonia. Autofiction. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859913.001.0001.

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Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile explores the multiple aspects of exile, displacement, mobility, and identity as expressed in contemporary autofictional work written in French by women writers from across the francophone world. Drawing on postcolonial theory, gender theory, and autobiographical theory, the book analyses narratives of exile by six authors who are shaped by their multiple locales of attachment: Kim Lefèvre (Vietnam/France), Gisèle Pineau (Guadeloupe/mainland France), Nina Bouraoui (Algeria/France), Michèle Rakotoson (Madagascar/France), Véronique Tadjo (Côte d’Ivoire/France), and Abla Farhoud (Lebanon/Quebec). In this way, the book argues that the French colonial past continues to mould female articulations of mobility and identity in the postcolonial present. Responding to gaps in the critical discourse of exile, namely gender, this book brings genre in both its forms — gender and literary genre — to bear on narratives of exile, arguing that the reconceptualization of categories of mobility occurs specifically in women’s autofictional writing. The six authors complicate discussions of exile as they are highly mobile, hybrid subjects. This rootless existence, however, often renders them alienated and ‘out of place’. While ensuring not to trivialize the very real difficulties faced by those whose exile is not a matter of choice, the book argues that the six authors experience their hybridity as both a literal and a metaphorical exile, a source of both creativity and trauma. The autofictional mode of writing becomes a means for the authors to resolve the multiple personal conflicts which arise from their migration.
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Damrosch, David. Comparing the Literatures. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691134994.001.0001.

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Literary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization. More works than ever circulate worldwide in English and in translation, and even national traditions are increasingly seen in transnational terms. To encompass this expanding literary universe, scholars and teachers need to expand their linguistic and cultural resources, rethink their methods and training, and reconceive the place of literature and criticism in the world. This book integrates comparative, postcolonial, and world-literary perspectives to offer a comprehensive overview of comparative studies and its prospects in a time of great upheaval and great opportunity. The book looks both at institutional forces and at key episodes in the life and work of comparatists who have struggled to define and redefine the terms of literary analysis over the past two centuries, from Johann Gottfried Herder and Germaine de Staël to Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Franco Moretti, and Emily Apter. With literary examples ranging from Ovid and Kālidāsa to James Joyce, Yoko Tawada, and the internet artists Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, the book shows how the main strands of comparison—philology, literary theory, colonial and postcolonial studies, and the study of world literature—have long been intertwined. A deeper understanding of comparative literature's achievements, persistent contradictions, and even failures can help comparatists in literature and other fields develop creative responses to today's most important questions and debates. Amid a multitude of challenges and new possibilities for comparative literature, the book provides an important road map for the discipline's revitalization.
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Dean, Andrew. Double Thoughts. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805281.003.0004.

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Coetzee’s interest in destabilizing the boundaries of literature and philosophy is most evident in later fictions such as Elizabeth Costello. But as Andrew Dean argues in this chapter, this interest in moving across boundaries in fact originates much earlier, in Coetzee’s quarrel with the institutions and procedures of literary criticism. Coetzee used the occasion of his inaugural professorial lecture at the University of Cape Town (Truth and Autobiography) to criticize the assumption that literary criticism can reveal truths about literature to which literary texts are themselves blind. Influenced in part by such figures as Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, Coetzee posed a series of challenging questions about the desires at stake in the enterprise of literary criticism. Developing these thoughts, Dean explores the way in which Coetzee’s earlier fiction, including such texts as Foe (1986), is energized by its quarrelsome relationship with literary criticism and theory, especially postcolonial theory.
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Summers, Carol. Education and Literacy. Edited by John Parker and Richard Reid. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199572472.013.0017.

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Schooling and literacy have been central to Africa’s modern development. Education was put forward by colonial states and their mission allies as a way to engineer progressive change either by educating and assimilating key individuals in elite European-style schools, or by training communities in adapted ways that offered economic development while minimizing political change. In practice, colonial planners found education expensive and destabilizing in the face of local entrepreneurs who sought opportunities for individual wealth, power, and respect and who used the tools of literacy and print culture to make new identities for themselves and for larger groups. Recent scholarship has emphasized the continuities between colonial and postcolonial ideas of centrally planned education, and the role of creative writing, reading, and teaching in the development of a new African elite capable of challenging both colonial and postcolonial initiatives.
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Vadde, Aarthi. Chimeras of Form. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231180245.001.0001.

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In Chimeras of Form, Aarthi Vadde vividly illustrates how modernist and contemporary writers reimagine the nation and internationalism in a period defined by globalization. She explains how Rabindranath Tagore, James Joyce, Claude McKay, George Lamming, Michael Ondaatje, and Zadie Smith use modernist literary forms to develop ideas of international belonging sensitive to the afterlife of empire. In doing so, she shows how this wide-ranging group of authors challenged traditional expectations of aesthetic form, shaping how their readers understand the cohesion and interrelation of political communities. Drawing on her close readings of individual texts and on literary, postcolonial, and cosmopolitical theory, Vadde examines how modernist formal experiments take part in debates about transnational interdependence and social obligation. She reads Joyce's use of asymmetrical narratives as a way to ask questions about international camaraderie, and demonstrates how the "plotless" works of Claude McKay upturn ideas of citizenship and diasporic alienation. Her analysis of the contemporary writers Zadie Smith and Shailja Patel shows how present-day issues relating to migration, displacement, and economic inequality link modernist and postcolonial traditions of literature. Vadde brings these traditions together to reveal the dual nature of internationalism as an aspiration, possibly a chimeric one, and an actual political discourse vital to understanding our present moment.
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Moody, Alys. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828891.003.0006.

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This book has traced a history of modernism’s decline and of its doubters. In post-Vichy France, the US circa 1968, and late apartheid South Africa, modernism’s fate was precarious, its reputation tarnished, and its politics reviled. The inescapability of the political in these contexts compromised the structural conditions of the autonomous literary field on which modernism had been built. In turn, it threw into crisis the philosophical defense of autonomy and the literary legacies of modernism, which grew out of and were guaranteed by this autonomous literary field. The stories we tell about late twentieth-century literary history reflect this dilemma. According to received wisdom, the period between 1945 and 1990 saw postmodernism replace modernism in both literature and scholarship, and new waves of postcolonial literature and theory discredited the Eurocentric specter of modernism. ...
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Hiddleston, Jane, and Khalid Lyamlahy, eds. Abdelkébir Khatibi. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789622331.001.0001.

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Abdelkébir Khatibi (1938–2009) is one of the greatest Moroccan thinkers, and one of the most important theorists of both postcolonialism and Islamic culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book introduces his works to Anglophone readers, tracing his development from the early work on sociology in Morocco to his literary and aesthetic works championing transnationalism and multilingualism. The essays here both offer close analyses of Khatibi’s engagements with a range of issues, from Moroccan politics to Arabic calligraphy and from decolonisation to interculturality, and highlights the important contribution of his thinking to the development of Western postcolonial and modern theory. The book acknowledges the legacy of one of the greatest African thinkers of the last century, and addresses the lack of attention to his work in the field of postcolonial studies. More than a writer, a sociologist or a thinker, Khatibi was a leading figure and an eclectic intellectual whose erudite works can still inform and enrich current reflections on the future of postcolonialism and the development of intercultural and transnational studies. The book also includes translated excerpts from Khatibi’s works, thus offering a multilingual perspective on his writing.
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