Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Imperialism and Textuality
2: Colonialist Concerns
3: The Stirrings of New Nationalism
4: Metropolitans and Mimics
5: Independence
6: Postcolonialism
7: Transitional futures: the postcolonial book and the global world
Chronology of key events and publications
Notes
Further reading
Index

Promotional Information

A revised and expanded edition of this unpararalleled introduction to colonial and postcolonial literature

About the Author

Elleke Boehmer is the Chair of Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in the Department of English and Media at Nottingham Trent University, and Director of the NTU Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. She has published Empire Writing (Oxford World's Classics, 1998), Empire, the National and the Postcolonial (2002), and critical editions of Robert Baden Powell's Scouting for Boys (2004) and Cornelia Sorabji's India Calling
(2004).

Reviews

`Review from previous edition I imagine the book will continue to be an important resource for many years.'
Durrant
`One of the best introductions to colonialism and literature I have ever read...I urge Oxford University Press to produce a second edition of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature....As a literary history of postcolonialism, it has no equal.'
Zwicker
`A well-organized, accessible, and tightly-constructed text that reads very well and gives one both coverage and a sense of historical depth.'
Ghosh