English postcoloniality : literatures from around the world

Record details

ISBN: 9780313288548 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0313288542 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
viii, 216 p ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1996.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: The Concept of English Postcoloniality / Radhika Mohanram and Gita Rajan -- A Postcolonial Tale / Joy Harjo -- Out of the Center: Thoughts on the Post-colonial Literatures of Australia and New Zealand / Ralph J. Crane -- "A Terrible Beauty Is Born": Irish Literature as a Paradigm for the Formation of Postcolonial Literatures / Ian Crump -- Caribbean Writing in English: Intimations of a Historical Nightmare / P. S. Chauhan -- South African Writing in English / John C. Hawley -- Postcolonial East African Literature: Toward a Literature of the People, for the People, and by the People? / Jeannine DeLombard -- Between Cultures: Insights on West African Writing in English / Anthonia Kalu -- Language, Identity, and Nation in Postcolonial Indian English Literature / Aparna Dharwadker and Vinay Dharwadker -- Prolegomena to the Study of Pakistani English and Pakistani Literature in English / Alamgir Hashmi -- Canadian Writing in English and Multiculturalism / Leon Litvack -- Historical Review of African-American Literature / Christopher Wise and Cora Agatucci -- Margin or Center? "Let me tell you! In the Land of my Ancestors I am the Centre": Indigenous Writing in Aotearoa / Powhiri Wharemarama Rika-Heke -- On Women's Writing in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Patricia Grace, Keri Hulme, Cathie Dunsford / Sigrid Markmann -- Nesting in the Ruins / Norma C. Wilson -- Aboriginal Writing: Twisting the Colonial Super-narrative / Hugh Webb.