Beyond the Postcolonial: World Englishes Literature

By Emma Dawson Varughese

Book Overview

With the backdrop of new global powers, this volume interrogates the state of writing in English. Strongly interdisciplinary, it challenges the prevailing orthodoxy of postcolonial literary theory. An insistence on fieldwork and linguistics makes this book scene-changing in its approach to understanding and reading emerging literature in English.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349336629
• ISBN13: 9781349336623
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"