What is Post/Colonial Literature, and Why are they Saying Such Terrible Things about it?

• Autores: Theo D'Haen
• Localización: Links & letters, ISSN 1133-7397, Nº 4, 1997 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Literature and Neocolonialism), págs. 11-18
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The present article first discusses the «ideological» implications of the use of the terms «post-colonial» and «postcolonial» in some recent publications, mainly Elleke Boehmer's 1995 Colonial & Postcolonial literature and John Thieme's 1996 The ArnoldAnthology 4 Post-Colonial Literatures in English. It then tries to situate these uses with regard to current discourses on English Studies and on postmodernism.