Post-colonial studies

This work works as an A to Z style handbook for the ideas, practices and creative output grouped under the label post-colonial. Its roughly 400 entries cover major figures, trends and movements, with literature and literary theory at the center, since those fields helped shape the discipline. Students in post-colonial literature and theory courses will find it a useful starting point, and researchers who have worked in the area for years can use it as a dependable lookup. Entries range well beyond books and critics to include political leaders, historical events, music, film, visual art, popular culture, and matters of language use. Because the entries are linked to one another, readers can follow a topic across the volume, and no prior background is required to make sense of them.