Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process?

by Ato Quayson

This important new book provides a critical introduction to the rapidly expanding field of postcolonial studies.

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Ato Quayson is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism, Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing, Calibrations: Reading for the Social, and Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation, as well as editor of the two-volume Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature, coeditor of A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism Studies and general editor of the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry.

Reviews

[Leif]

Some odd examples distract from what is otherwise an adroit and exploratory introduction to postcolonialism.