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Postcolonizing the Commonwealth : studies in literature and culture

Author: Rowland Smith
Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2000.
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"Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature and Culture offers an analysis of the state postcolonial criticism today and of the application of postcolonial methods to a variety of texts and historical events. It is a contribution to the current debate in both literary and cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.
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Genre/Form: Waterloo (Ontario, 1997)
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Postcolonizing the Commonwealth.
Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2000
(OCoLC)606352910
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Rowland Smith
ISBN: 0889203520 9780889203525 088920358X 9780889203587
OCLC Number: 44585792
Description: vi, 216 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Postcolonial/Commonwealth studies in the Caribbean : points of difference / Edward Baugh --
Proximities : from Asymptote to Zeugma / Alan Lawson --
Looking in from 'beyond' : Commonwealth studies in French universities / Jacqueline Bardolph --
Climbing Mount Everest : postcolonialism in the culture of ascent / Stephen Slemon --
Afrikaners, Africans and Afriquas : Métissage in Breyten Breytenback's Return to paradise / Johan U. Jacobs --
Inheritance in question : the magical realist mode in Afrikaans fiction / Sheila Roberts --
Natal women's letters in the 1850's : Ellen McLeod, Eliza Feilden, gender and "second-world" ambi/valence / Margaret J. Daymond --
Rural women and African resistance : Lauretta Ngcobo's novel And they didn't die / Cherry Clayton --
Five minutes of silence : voice of Iranian feminists in the postrevolutionary age / Nima Naghibi --
FAS and cultural discourse : who speaks for native women? / Cheryl Suzack --
Can Rohinton Mistry's realism rescue the novel? / Laura Moss --
Dislocations of culture : unhousing and the unhomely in Salman Rushdie's Shame / Susan Spearey --
A vision of unity : Brathwaite, Ngugi, Rushdie and the quest for authenticity / Mac Fenwick --
Cowboy songs, Indian speeches and the language of poetry / J. Edward Chamberlain.
Responsibility: Rowland Smith, editor.

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"Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature and Culture offers an analysis of the state postcolonial criticism today and of the application of postcolonial methods to a variety of texts and historical events. It is a contribution to the current debate in both literary and cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.

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