Postcolonialism

Ato Quayson is Lecturer in English and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

'Quayson's summary of the essence of the debate between Marshall Sahlins and Gannath Obeyesekere will be welcomed for its conciseness and its accuracy.' Research in African Literatures

• Introduction: Postcolonializing. 1. Instrumental and Synoptic Dimensions of Interdisciplinarity.2. Postcolonial Historiography and the Problem of Local Knowledge.3. Literature as a Politically Symbolic Act.5. Feminism, Postcolonialism and the Contradictory Orders of Modernity.6. Postcolonialism and Postmodernism.7. Parables from the Canon: Postcolonializing Shakespeare.Notes.Bibliography.Index.