The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies

By Graham Huggan

Book Overview

The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised into five cross-referenced sections, "The Imperial Past," "The Colonial Present," "Theory and Practice," "Across the Disciplines," and "Across the World." The chapters offer both country-specific and comparative approaches to current issues, offering a wide range of new and interesting perspectives. The Handbook reflects the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of postcolonial studies and reiterates its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past--in its multiple manifestations--and the contemporary globalized world. Taken together, these essays, the dialogues they pursue, and the editorial comments that surround them constitute nothing less than a blueprint for the future of a much-contested but intellectually vibrant and politically engaged field.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198778457
• ISBN13: 9780198778455
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"