- 240 pages
- English
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About this book
The postcolonial literary canon remains comprised of privileged national and regional texts. The English-language literatures of Africa, India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean clearly emerged from an earlier model of 'Commonwealth literature'. Post-Colonial Literatures examines the development of this body of writing, and is the first such study to expand the paradigm to accommodate the literatures of the colonised peoples of North America. The authors engage with the major debates within existing postcolonial studies, addressing issues such as hybridity, subaltern voices, decolonisation, multiculturalism and border cultures. Subjects covered include Fred D'Aguiar, Merle Collins and Toni Morrison; Native Candian writing and US-Canadian literary relations; writings of the Autralian Aborignals; women writers in Zimbabwe; and the relationship between black and Hispanic discourses of America.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Beyond the Commonwealth: Post-Colonialism and American Literature
- 2. Post-Colonialism in the United States: Diversity or Hybridity?
- 3. Ethical Reading and Resistant Texts
- 4. Fractures: Written Displacements in Canadian/US Literary Relations
- 5. The Rhythm of Difference: Language and Silence in "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" and "The Piano"
- 6. Locating and Celebrating Difference: Writing by South African and Aboriginal Women Writers
- 7. Coming in From the Margins: Gender in Contemporary Zimbabwean Writing
- 8. The Memory of Slavery in Fred D'Aguiar's "Feeding the Ghosts"
- 9. 'Versioning' the Revolution: Gender and Politics in Merle Collins's "Angel"
- 10. Erupting Funk: The Political Style of Toni Morrison's "Tar Baby" and "The Bluest Eye"
- 11. Afro-Hispanic Literature and Feminist Theories: Thinking Ethics
- 12. Chicano/a Literature: An Active Interanimating of Competing Discourses
- 13. Border Theory and the Canon
- 14. Racialism and Liberation in Native American Literature
- 15. Ants in the System: 'Thinking Strongly' about Native American Stories
- List of Contributors
- Index