The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)

by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin

Book Overview

The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415012090
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 5.3" x 0.8"

Customer Reviews

For college.

Incredibly hard read.

All in one

Despite its "trendy" title -- very postmodern, combining Salman Rushdie with George Lucas and Star Wars -- and the multiple authorship, this survey is a very readable, clearly articulated consideration of the central problems and issues in post-colonial scholarship. The authors write seamlessly as one, not as a committee, though it is clear that they combine complementary areas of expertise. The consideration of feminist scholarship was perhaps the most disappointing: unlike the other analyses, it seemed desultory. The book is also to be commended for being not merely a conscientious account of post-colonial research, but also a thoughtful and fair-minded critique as well.