Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English

Prem Poddar is Alexander von Humboldt Senior Fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. He is the author of Violent Civilities (2002) and has edited Translating Nations (2000) and Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective (2007). David Johnson is Professor of Literature in the Department of English and Creative Writing at The Open University. He is the author of Shakespeare and South Africa (1996), Imagining the Cape Colony: History, Literature and the South African Nation (2012) and Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa: Literature between Critique and Utopia (2019); and the co-editor of A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (2008); The Book in Africa: Critical Debates (2015); and Labour Struggles in Southern Africa (2023). He is the General Editor of the Edinburgh University Press series Key Texts in Anti-Colonial Thought.

• Algerian War of Independence, Kay Adamson (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK); Amin, Idi, Emilia Ilieva (Egerton University, Kenya); Anglicisation, Cheralyn Mealor (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark); Anglo-Boer War, Bill Nasson (University of Cape Town, South Africa); Anglo-Burmese Wars, Thomas Henthorne (Pace University, US); Anglo-Zulu War, Jeff Guy (University of Natal: Durban, South Africa); Anti-colonialism (Caribbean), Cleve Scott (University of West Indies, Barbados); Anti-colonialism (East Africa), James Ogude (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa); Anti-colonialism (West Africa), Alfred Zack-Williams (Liverpool, UK); Anti-colonialism (India), Pranav Jani (Wagner College, US) and Mytheli Sreenivas (William Paterson University, US); Anti-war movements (Australia), David Day (La Trobe University, Australia); ANZAC, David Day (La Trobe University, Australia); Apartheid and Segregation, Michael Cardo (South African Institute of Race Relations, South Africa); Arab Nationalisms, Azfhar Hussein (Washington State University, US); Asante War, Kirsten Holt Petersen (Roskilde University, Denmark); Asian Expulsions (East Africa), Stephanie Jones (School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, London University, UK); Asianisation, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University, Denmark); Assimilation (Canada), Batia Boe Stolar (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada); Aung San Suu Kyi , Thomas Henthorne (Pace University, US); Back-to Africa Movement, Noah Butler (Northwestern University, US); Balfour Declaration, Nancy Stockdale (University of Central Florida, US); Bangladesh (1971), Rehnuma Ahmed (DRIK, Dhaka, Bangladesh); Bengal Famine, Suhail Islam (Nazareth College of Rochester, US) and Syed Hussain (Claflin College, US); Berlin Conference, Barbara Harlow (University of Texas, US); Biafra and Biafran War, David Pratten (Sussex University, UK); Big Bear, Douglas Ivison (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada); Black Consciousness (Southern Africa) Kelwyn Sole (UCT, S

This volume I will keep in my personal reference collection and I recommend it to all undergraduate students of post colonial literature and their teachers.