Postcolonial Studies

Bill Ashcroft is Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is a renowned critic and theorist, founding exponent of postcolonial theory, and author of 21 books and over 200 articles and chapters. He is co-editor of The Postcolonial Studies Reader (with Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin); he is also co-author of The Empire Writes Back (also with Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin), the first text to offer a systematic examination of the field of postcolonial studies.Gareth Griffiths is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. He is a pioneer in the field of postcolonial studies. He has also written extensively on African literatures and theatre. He has authored and edited 15 books and more than a hundred articles and chapters.Helen Tiffin is Adjunct Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She has authored or edited 8 books and over 80 articles and chapters on postcolonial literatures, literary theory and animal and environmental subjects.

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