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Article: Comparing Postcolonial Literatures: Dislocations.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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Comparing Postcolonial Literatures: Dislocations. Ed. by ASHOK BERRY and PATRICIA MURRAY. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 2000. xi + 283 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling].
Inevitably, perhaps, the first result of reading Comparing Postcolonial Literatures is to induce a crushing sense of inadequacy on the part of the reviewer. As the editors note, postcolonial studies have been dominated by a largely Anglophone perspective. Few postcolonialists are fully equipped to deal with a volume which involves the Francophone and Hispanic literatures of the Caribbean and Latin America (Bolivia, Cuba, and the Antilles in particular), a hefty emphasis on Irish ...