Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

Wole Soyinka, peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, V.S. Naipaul, J.M. Coetzee- postcolonial writers from around the world now enjoy wide popularity. In this book, E. Boehmer looks challengingly at the history of such writing, how it developed and how it departs from writing in the Empire in the vistorian period. Contents: Introduction; 1. Imperialism and textuality; 2. Colonialist concerns; 3. The stirrings of new nationalism; 4. Metropolitans and mimics; 5. Independence; 6. Postcolonialism and beyond.