Provides further reading for students and those keen to learn more about this subject.

This was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture, and remains one of the most significant works published in this field.

Presenting introduction to several important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition includes 121 extracts from key works in the field. Covering more debates, topics and critics, it is the starting point for students, and issues a potent challenge to the ways in which we think and write about literature and culture.

Examines the ways in which post-colonial literatures have transformed English to redefine what we understand to be 'English Literature'. This title investigates the importance of language learning in the imperial mission, the function of language in ideas of race and place, the move from orature to literature and the significance of translation.

Post-Colonial Studies has undergone a meteoric rise in the past decade in literature departments throughout the world. The aim of this series is to open up various horizons in the field: to encourage the development of post-colonial theory and practice in a wider spread of disciplinary approaches; to promote conceptual innovation in the study of post-colonial discourse in general; and to provide .

This was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture, and remains one of the most significant works published in this field.

Looking at the context and the impact of Edward Said's scholarship and journalism, this book examines Said's key ideas, including the significance of 'worldliness', 'amateurism', 'secular criticism', 'affiliation' and 'contrapuntal reading'; the place of text and critic in 'the world'; and, knowledge, power and the construction of the 'Other'.

An introduction to the important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition includes 121 extracts from key works in the field. It covers sections on Nationalism, Hybridity, Diaspora and Globalization. It contains debates, topics and critics, and is useful for students.

Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of Orientalism, this volume explains Said's key ideas, their contexts and impact, with reference to both his scholarship and journalism.

Provides further reading for students and those keen to learn more about this subject.

Contents: Horizons in Post-Colonial Studies; Introduction; Placing Edward Said: Space Time and the Travelling Theorist; Nothing in the Post? -- Said and the Problem of Post-Colonial Intellectuals; Edward Said and/versus Raymond Williams; Worldliness; Orientalism as Post-Imperial Witnessing; Europe's Occidentalisms; The Evolution of Orientalism and Africanist Political Science; Post-Colonialism as

This work presents an alternative view of the ways in which post-colonial societies have responded to colonial control. It also offers a comprehensive analysis of the major features of post-colonial studies.

This comprehensive analysis of the major features of post-colonial studies presents a revolutionary view of how post-colonial societies have responded to colonial control.

This work presents an alternative view of the ways in which post-colonial societies have responded to colonial control. It also offers a comprehensive analysis of the major features of post-colonial studies.

Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of Orientalism , a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies. This volume explains Said's key ideas, their contexts and impact, with reference to both his scholarship and journalism.