This hugely popular AZ guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which
characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial …

The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced
an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has …

As a subject, post-colonial studies stands at the intersection of debates about race,
colonialism, gender, politics and language. In the language of post-colonial studies, some …

The figure of the disaporic or migrant writer has recently come to be seen as the'Everyman'of
the late modern period, a symbol of the global and the local, a cultural traveller who can …

TThis book is about the human desire to experiment with empire. In the past it was done with
real soldiers and expeditions and slaves and trade and misery and force. In the future it will …

Dickens and Empire offers a reevaluation of Charles Dickens's imaginative engagement
with the British Empire throughout his career. Employing postcolonial theory alongside …

This paper examines the way in which the (British) Asian diaspora creates a territory of
belonging and a cultural nationalism within the British landscape. New, British Asian …

Throughout his long career as a political thinker and activist, Mahatma Gandhi encountered
the dilemma of either remaining faithful to his nonviolent principles and risking the failure of …

Concepts likenation',society', andculture'name bits and threaten to turn names into things.
Only by understanding these names as bundles of relationships, and by placing them back …

This thesis is an attempt to understand the evolution of national identity in New Zealand
through an examination of New Zealanders' evolving attitudes to immigrants and …