Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature

Shirley Chew is Emeritus Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Leeds. She has published widely in the field of Postcolonial literatures including the co-edited Unbecoming Daughters of the Empire (1993), Translating Life: Studies in Transpositional Aesthetics (1999) and Reconstructing the Book: Literary Texts in Transmission (2001). From 1992-1996 she co-edited The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. She is the founding editor Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writing. David Richards is Professor of English Studies and Director of the Centre of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Stirling having previously held posts at the universities of Leeds and Birmingham and at the Open University, where he was the founding Director of the Ferguson Research Centre. His published works include Masks of Difference: Cultural Representations in Literature, Anthropology and Art (1995) and Urban Generations: Post-colonial Cities (Co-edited with Taieb Balghazi and Taoufik Agoumy, 2005).

• List of Illustrations viiNotes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1Shirley Chew1 Framing Identities 9David Richards2 Orality and Literacy 29Part 1: India G.N. DevyPart 2: South Africa Duncan Brown3 The Politics of Rewriting 56C.L. Innes4 Postcolonial Translations 78Susan Bassnett5 Nation and Nationalisms 97John McLeod6 Feminism and Womanism 120Nana Wilson-Tagoe7 Cartographies and Visualization 141David Howard8 Marginality: Representations of Subalternity, Aboriginality and Race 162Stephen Morton9 Anthropology and Postcolonialism 182Will Rea10 Publishing Histories 204Gail LowIndex 229