Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English
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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). David Johnson is Professor of Literature in the Department of English and Creative Writing at The Open University. He is the author of Shakespeare and South Africa (1996), Imagining the Cape Colony: History, Literature and the South African Nation (2012) and Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa: Literature between Critique and Utopia (2019); and the co-editor of A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (2008); The Book in Africa: Critical Debates (2015); and Labour Struggles in Southern Africa (2023). He is the General Editor of the Edinburgh University Press series Key Texts in Anti-Colonial Thought.This volume I will keep in my personal reference collection and I recommend it to all undergraduate students of post colonial literature and their teachers.
- Terry Barringer, African Research & Documentation
A major achievement. … Provides a remarkably rich overview of many of the key historical trajectories that inform postcolonial literature in the English–speaking world.
College Literature
Dizzying in its scope and detail … This is a significant publication worthy of its categorisation as a reference work and it should be promoted to and on hand in the library for all students and scholars of postcolonial literature.
Reference Reviews
the Historical Companion would broadly benefit anyone involved in the area of postcolonial studies. An approachable, informed guide through critical debates, events, ideas and movements, this volume encourages critical vigour and the continuing relevancy of postcolonial theory in a changing world.
Wasafiri (Book Reviews)
The Companion is without doubt a major achievement. Bringing together an impressive range of scholars drawn from across the postcolonial world as well as from the metropolitan academy, the Companion provides a remarkably rich overview of many of the key historical trajectories that inform postcolonial literature in the English-speaking world.
- Graham MacPhee, College Literature,
Critics weary of the universalising tendencies of much of postcolonial theory will welcome this volume's emphasis on a multiplicity of histories... An approachable, informed guide through critical debates, events, ideas and movements, this volume encourages critical vigour and highlights the continuing relevance of postcolonial theory in a changing world.
- Maeve Tynan, Wasafiri,
Are individual entries of high quality? The answer is basically yes … almost all struck me as informative.
- Simon During, Australian Literary Studies,
Certainly one of the better guides, with its historically grounded approach contributing to the movement away from overarching accounts of postcolonial practices .… This remains an authoritative work.
- The Journal of Commonwealth Literature,
A work of this nature, whose raison d'etre is a firm commitment to historical contextualisation, is a very welcome addition to the field...an approachable informed guide.
- Wasatri 52,