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Article: Colonial and Postcolonial Literature.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
- Author:
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In her overview of the now well-established field of colonial and postcolonial studies, Elleke Boehmer presents a comprehensive, lucid, and nuanced account of both the literature of the British empire and the literature in opposition to empire. Spanning the period from the late Victorian age to the present, her six chapters adroitly move between the general and the particular, classifying major themes, genres, and authors while providing close readings of key texts. This approach enables Boehmer to survey the unifying concerns and trends in colonial and postcolonial writing and at the same time to give the reader a sense of the field's impressive diversity. Her study draws ...
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