Skip to main content

Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts

by Bill Ashcroft

213 Members (3.82)

On This Page

Recommendations

Author Information

Common Knowledge

Classifications

Description

This hugely popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity. For this third edition over thirty new entries have been added including:CosmopolitanismDevelopmentFundamentalismNostalgiaPost-colonial cinemaSustainabilityTraffickingWorld Englishes.Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts remains an show more essential guide for anyone studying this vibrant field. show less

Tags

Recommendations

Adaptation and Appropriation by Julie Sanders

Adaptation and Appropriation

Colonialism/Postcolonialism (The New Critical Idiom) by Ania Loomba

Colonialism/Postcolonialism (The New Critical Idiom)

Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader by Patrick Williams

Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader

Patrick Williams

The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents) by Bill Ashcroft

The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)

The Post-Colonial Studies Reader by Bill Ashcroft

The Post-Colonial Studies Reader

Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction by Robert J. C. Young

Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction

Robert J. C. Young

Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics by Bart Moore-Gilbert

Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics

Bart Moore-Gilbert

Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory by Peter Barry

Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory

Postcolonial Theory by Leela Gandhi

Postcolonial Theory

The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha

The Location of Culture

Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said

Culture and Imperialism

Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by Vincent B. Leitch

Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

Vincent B. Leitch

The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins by Graham Huggan

The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins

Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader by Padmini Mongia

Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader

Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest by Anne McClintock

Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest

Anne McClintock

Colonial and Postcolonial Literature by Elleke Boehmer

Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Walter Benjamin

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak by Stephen Morton

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Mythologies by Roland Barthes

The Pre-occupation of Postcolonial Studies by Fawzia Afzal-Khan

The Pre-occupation of Postcolonial Studies

Fawzia Afzal-Khan

Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire

Discourse on Colonialism

Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference by Dipesh Chakrabarty

Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. C. Young

Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction

Robert J. C. Young

Nation and narration by Homi K. Bhabha

Nation and narration

White Mythologies by Robert Young

White Mythologies

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth

Outside in the Teaching Machine by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Outside in the Teaching Machine

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

Black Skin, White Masks

Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan D. Culler

Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

Jonathan D. Culler

The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton

Literary Theory: An Introduction

Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization by Arjun Appadurai

Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

Arjun Appadurai

Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation by Mary Louise Pratt

Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation

Mary Louise Pratt

The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by Mikhail Bakhtin

The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays

Mikhail Bakhtin

Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers by Andrew Edgar

Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers

In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures by Aijaz Ahmad

In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures

In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Benedict Anderson

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies by Neil Lazarus

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies

On the Postcolony by Achille Mbembé

On the Postcolony

Achille Mbembé

On Immigration and Refugees by Sir Michael Dummett

On Immigration and Refugees

Sir Michael Dummett

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness by Paul Gilroy

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness

The Cultural Studies Reader by Simon During

The Cultural Studies Reader

Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts by Peter Sedgwick

Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts

Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things by Ann Laura Stoler

Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things

Ann Laura Stoler

Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism by Trinh T. Minh-Ha

Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism

Trinh T. Minh-Ha

Globalization by Arjun Appadurai

Arjun Appadurai

The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan by Eric Cheyfitz

The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan

Complete Recommendations

Member Reviews

Members

Recently Added By: ABFT, biblio_collie, Kunstskolen, Jameslaja, NEWLOCALSPACE, UTAMSLibrary, Subat, DaveBjolin

Author Information

Picture of author.

15+ Works 969 Members

Bill Ashcroft teaches English at the University of New South Wales.

Series

Belongs to Publisher Series

Routledge Key Guides

Common Knowledge

Canonical title: Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts

Classifications

Genres: Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Reference
DDC/MDS: 325.303 — Society, government, & culture Political science International migration and colonization English
LCC: JV22 .A84 — Political Science Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration Colonies and colonization. Emigration and Colonies and colonization
BISAC: LIT LITERARY CRITICISM General

More Classifications

Statistics

Members: 213
Popularity: 153,291
Rating: (3.82)

Languages: English
Media: Paper, Ebook
ISBNs: 18
ASINs: 2

Quick Facts

Published: 1998
Genres: Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Reference
DDC/MDS: 325.303
LCC: JV22 .A84

Author

Picture of author.

15+ Works 969 Members

Popular Covers

Find It

Links

No links

Popularity

77%
100%
49%
100%
74%
54%
70%
7%
71%
53%
72%
51%
70%
41%

2012
2026

Ratings

Stars: (3.82)

Click to expand

Click to reduce

Helpers

Verdana Standard Verdana Small The Lorax System Standard System Large Georgia Large Text Atkinson