Product Description

This was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture, and remains one of the most significant works published in this field.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52488 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

From the Back Cover
'... the Empire writes back to the Centre ...' Salman Rushdie.
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 established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture.
The Empire Writes Back was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture, and remains one of the most significant works published in this field. The authors, three leading figures in post-colonial studies, open up debates about the interrelationships of post-colonial literatures, investigate the powerful forces acting on language in the post-colonial text, and show how these texts constitute a radical critique of Eurocentric notions of literature and language.
This book is brilliant not only for its incisive analysis, but for its accessibility for readers new to the field. Now with an additional chapter and an updated bibliography, it is impossible to underestimate the importance of this book for contemporary post-colonial studies.

About the Author
Bill Ashcroft teaches at the University of New South Wales, Australia, Gareth Griffiths at the University at Albany, USA and Helen Tiffin at the University of Queensland. All three have published widely in post-colonial studies, and together edited the ground-breaking Post-Colonial Studies Reader (1994) and wrote Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies (1998).

Customer Reviews

important and dated
A book that was probably ground breaking once upon a time, but now itseems dated. Much of its reading of the centre and the margin inpostcolonial terms has been critiqued by later theorists and critics. Iguess it still has historical value now, but unfortunately it continues tobe used to teach postcolonial literatures in most schools anduniversities.