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Article: Shades of Empire in Colonial and Post-Colonial Literatures.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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Shades of Empire in Colonial and Post-Colonial Literatures is an anthology of essays "arranged in a broad sweep from East to West," essays offering studies of colonial and post-colonial literatures covering a wide geographic and cultural spectrum that encompasses India, Malaya, Australia, Cameroon, Botswana, the Congo, the West Indies, the USA, and Canada. Thematically, the articles range from reassessments of "colonialist" writings to fresh studies of resurgent post-colonial literatures dealing, among other things, with feminism and ethnicity. However, the central focus of the book is on the growing importance of the new anglophone literatures that have been emanating from ...