1st Edition

The Routledge Companion To Postcolonial Studies

Edited By John McLeod Copyright 2007
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Introduction  Part 1: The Colonial Empires  1. The British Empire  2. The French Empire  3. The Spanish and Portugese Empires  4. The Dutch Empire  Part 2: Postcolonial Locations  5. Africa (North and Central)  6. Australasia  7. Canada  8. Caribbean  9. Ireland  10. South America  11. Southern Africa  12. South and East Asia  13. US and European Diasporas  Part 3: Postcolonial Formulations  14. Psychological Formulations  15. Poststructuralist Formulations  16. Materialist Formulations  17. Culturalist Formulations  Part 4: Key Writers and Thinkers  Chronology.  Further Reading.  Index of Key Concepts

Biography

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).