The Routledge Companion To Postcolonial Studies

Description

The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies offers a unique and up-to-date mapping of the postcolonial world, and is composed of essays as well as shorter entries for ease of reference. Introducing students to the history of the great European empires and the cultural legacies created in their wake, this book brings together an international range of contributors on such topics as:

• the colonial histories of Britain, France, Spain and Portugal
• the diverse postcolonial and diasporic cultural endeavours from Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Europe, and South and East Asia
• the major theoretical formulations: poststructuralist, materialist, culturalist, psychological.

With a comprehensive A to Z of forty key writers and thinkers central to contemporary postcolonial studies and featuring historical maps, this is both a concise introduction and an essential resource for any student of postcolonial culture, whatever their field.

Contents

Introduction Part 1: The Colonial Empires. The British Empire. The French Empire. The Spanish and Portugese Empires. The Dutch Empire Part 2: Postcolonial Locations. Africa (North and Central). Australasia. Canada. Caribbean. Ireland. South America. Southern Africa . South and East Asia. US and European Diasporas Part 3: Postcolonial Formulations. Psychological Formulations. Poststructuralist Formulations. Materialist Formulations. Culturalist Formulations. Part 4: Key Writers and Thinkers. Chronology. Further Reading. Index of Key Concepts

Author Bio

John McLeod is Reader in Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures at the School of English, University of Leeds. He is the author of numerous books, including Beginning Postcolonialism (Manchester University Press, 2000) and Postcolonial London: Rewriting the Metropolis (Routledge, 2004).

Related Subjects

1. Imperial & Colonial History
2. Post-Colonial Studies
3. Handbooks