Post-Colonial Theory and Literatures

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This exciting new volume in the WVT-Handbook series introduces the reader to the major post-colonial theorists and literary writers. It discusses key issues in post-colonial theory in relation to the work of Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Frantz Fanon and others. The literary writers included in this study range from established figures such as Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon, Wole Soyinka and Derek Walcott to more recent or popular authors such as David Dabydeen, Romesh Gunesekera, Hanif Kureishi, Ben Okri, Caryl Phillips, Arundhati Roy, as well as many others. Peter Childs is Professor of English at the University of Gloucestershire, Jean Jacques Weber is Professor of English at the University of Luxembourg, and Patrick Williams is Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University.

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Peter Childs

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Achebe, Chinua Bhabha, Homi Emecheta, Buchi Fanon, Frantz Post-Colonial Theory Said, Edward Spivak, Gayatri

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