Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and its Empires
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Biografisk notat
Prem Poddar is Alexander von Humboldt Senior Fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. He is the author of Violent Civilities (2002) and has edited Translating Nations (2000) and Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective (2007). Rajeev S. PATKE studied in Pune and Oxford. He has taught at the National University of Singapore, and is currently Director of the Division of Humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. Lars Jensen is Lecturer at Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University.Radical, intrepid, compendious, A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures, goes far toward restoring "postcolonialism" to its historical premises by resituating that imperial project in its much changed and still controversial cartographies. It is Marlow's map of the "heart of darkness" drastically redrawn: what was once the "vast amount of red," a "deuce of a lot of blue," a "little green," those "smears of orange," and the "purple patch," is here become a dense kaleidoscope that will of necessity rechart the itinerary of students and critical travelers across and around "continental Europe and its empires". -- Barbara Harlow, University of Texas at Austin The Companion is unique in that it provides a wealth of analysis and information about all European continental powers and their colonies and presents the entire assembly in a wonderful mis-en-scene. It is a 'true' companion that invites trans-cultural readings of trans-cultural literatures. -- Walter Mignolo, Duke University Radical, intrepid, compendious, A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures, goes far toward restoring "postcolonialism" to its historical premises by resituating that imperial project in its much changed and still controversial cartographies. It is Marlow's map of the "heart of darkness" drastically redrawn: what was once the "vast amount of red," a "deuce of a lot of blue," a "little green," those "smears of orange," and the "purple patch," is here become a dense kaleidoscope that will of necessity rechart the itinerary of students and critical travelers across and around "continental Europe and its empires". The Companion is unique in that it provides a wealth of analysis and information about all European continental powers and their colonies and presents the entire assembly in a wonderful mis-en-scene. It is a 'true' companion that invites trans-cultural readings of trans-cultural literatures.