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Critics and Writers Speak

Revisioning Post-Colonial Studies

Critics and Writers Speak( )
Editor: Maver, Igor
Contribution by: Albertazzi, Silvia
Brewster, Anne
Hawley, John
Huggan, Graham
Keefer, Janice Kulyk
Kobayashi, Fukuko
Peterson, William
Pierce, Peter
Ross, Robert L.
Wainwright, J. A.
ISBN:978-0-7391-1404-9
Publication Date:Apr 2006
Publisher:Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $142.95
Book Description:

This book of new critical essays and interviews with writers interrogates the current usage of the term and the category of the post-colonial as a theoretical concept, discourse and state of mind. By looking at contemporary writing in English throughout the world, it critically revisions the current practice of post-colonial studies and calls attention to its significant weaknesses.

Book Details
Pages:196
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / General
Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16.358 x 23.622 x 2.692 cm
Book Weight:0.473 Kilograms
Author Biography
(Editor)
Janice Kulyk Keefer was born in Toronto, Canada on June 2, 1952. She was educated at the University of Toronto and the University of Sussex, England where she received her doctorate in English literature.

She is a novelist and poet. Her works include White of the Lesser Angels, Reading Mavis Gallant, The Green Library, Marrying the Sea, and Thieves. She won the CBC Radio Literary Competition, for fiction, for Mrs. Putnam at the Planetarium and The Wind. She received the National Magazine Award for poetry for Fields and the Malahat Long Poem Prize for Isle of Demons. She is also the winner of the 1999 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry; also in that year, she won the Marian Engel Award, lifetime achievement.

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