The Routledge Companion To Postcolonial Studies by John McLeod - 9780415324977

The Routledge Companion To Postcolonial StudiesAuthor(s): John McLeod\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415324977, 978-0415324977\nSynopsis\nThe Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies offers a unique and up-to-date mapping of the postcolonial world, and is composed of essays as well as shorter entries for ease of reference. Introducing students to the history of the great European empires and the cultural legacies created in their wake, this book brings together an international range of contributors on such topics as:\n\nthe colonial histories of Britain, France, Spain and Portugal \nthe diverse postcolonial and diasporic cultural endeavours from Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Europe, and South and East Asia\nthe major theoretical formulations: poststructuralist, materialist, culturalist, psychological.\n\nWith a comprehensive A to Z of forty key writers and thinkers central to contemporary postcolonial.