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Article: Perspectives on Postcolonial Literature.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke, ed. London Skoob. 2001. x + 214 pages 12.99 [pounds sterling]/$14.95. ISBN 1-871438-28-4
IN THE LAST twenty years, postcolonial literature has become a field of study -- and a fashionable one -- for some academics. They mostly study the writers from former British colonies writing in English. This is evident from the fifteen essays by as many scholars from around the world collected in the book titled Perspectives on Postcolonial Literature. These are a selection of the papers presented at the tenth meeting of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, held in 1995 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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