The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

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 practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture.

The Empire Writes Back was the first major...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415280206
• ISBN13: 9780415280204
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.8"

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.