Post-colonial Studies

The Key Concepts

• Author(s): Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin,
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Pages: 275
• ISBN_10: 0415243602
  ISBN_13: 9780415243605
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism , Social Science / Emigration & Immigration , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Discrimination , Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations ,

Description:... Post-colonial studies stands at the intersection of debates about race, colonialism, gender, politics and language. In the language of post-colonial studies, some words are new, while others are familiar but charged with a new significance. This volume provides an essential key to understanding the issues that characterise post-colonialism, explaining what it is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities. Among the subjects defined and discussed are: * diaspora * Manicheanism * Orientalism * Fanonism * mimicry * settler-colony * imperialism * negritude * transculturation This comprehensive glossary has extensive cross-referencing, each entry is supplemented by suggestions for further reading, and there is a comprehensive bibliography of essential writings in post-colonial studies.