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Article: Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Leela Gandhi. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. New York. Columbia University Press. 1998. x + 200 pages. $42.50 ($17.50 paper). isbn 0-231-11272-6 (11273-4 paper).
Leela Gandhi articulates, with commendable energy and urgency, a manifesto for the current efflorescence of postcolonial studies all over the world, particularly in the Anglo-American academy: it should "diversify its mode of address and learn to speak more adequately to the world which it speaks for." Also, it should in turn "acquire the capacity to facilitate a democratic colloquium between the antagonistic inheritors of the colonial aftermath." A timely intervention indeed. It must, ...