The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English

C. L. Innes is Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent.

• Preface; 1. Introduction: Situating the postcolonial; 2. Postcolonial issues in performance; 3. Alternative histories and writing back; 4. Authorising the self: postcolonial autobiographical writing; 5. Situating the self: landscape and place; 6. Appropriating the word: language and voice; 7. 'Narrating the nation': form and genre; 8. Rewriting her story: nation and gender; 9. Rewriting the nation: acknowledging economic and cultural diversity; 10. Transnational and black British writing: colonising in reverse; 11. Citizens of the world: reading postcolonial literature; Glossary of critical terms; Notes on main writers discussed; Brief histories: Australia, The Caribbean, East Africa, India and Pakistan, Ireland, West Africa; Bibliography.

'… Prof. Innes's book, with clear language and comprehensive arguments from different perspectives, provides a valuable concise introduction for the students, lecturers and readers who are really interested in postcolonial literature.' Dr Alev Baysal, ManuScript