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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 820.99171241
EAN: 9780415280204
ISBN: 0415280206
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2002-07
Publisher: Routledge
Studio: Routledge

The authors, three leading figures in post-colonial studies, open up debates about the interrelationships of post-colonial literatures, investigate the powerful forces acting on language in the post-colonial text, and show how these texts constitute a radical critique of Eurocentric notions of literature and language.

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Review Summary: All in one
Review: Despite its "trendy" title -- very postmodern, combining Salman Rushdie with George Lucas and Star Wars -- and the multiple authorship, this survey is a very readable, clearly articulated consideration of the central problems and issues in post-colonial scholarship. The authors write seamlessly as one, not as a committee, though it is clear that they combine complementary areas of expertise. The consideration of feminist scholarship was perhaps the most disappointing: unlike the other analyses, it seemed desultory. The book is also to be commended for being not merely a conscientious account of post-colonial research, but also a thoughtful and fair-minded critique as well.

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