Linked Histories
Postcolonial Studies in a Globalized World
- Publisher
- University of Calgary Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2006
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552380888
- Publish Date
- Mar 2006
- List Price
- $34.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781552383896
- Publish Date
- Mar 2006
- List Price
- $34.95
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During the past two decades, postcolonial studies has proven to be one of the fastest growing fields of critical inquiry. Postcolonialism has established itself as an important specialist field within literature disciplines, and it has strong resonances across other disciplines (history, sociology, anthropology, geography, cultural studies) and is a field which has inspired genuinely interdisciplinary research. Linked Histories: Postcolonial Studies in a Globalized World, collected from the journal ARIEL (A Review of International English Literataure), take up some of the most pressing issues in postcolonial debates: the challenges which new theories of globalization present for postcolonial studies, the difficulties of rethinking how "marginality" might be defined in a new globalized world, the problems of imagining social transformation within globalization. The editors' goal in bringing together this collection of articles is not to provide any definitive statement on these urgent questions; rather, it is to assemble a group of essays which "think through" the issues and which therefore has the potential to move the discipline forward. The contributors represented include a balance of senior scholars with international reputations and scholars who represent the next generation.
With Contributions By: Bill Ashcroft Rey Chow Rob Cover Wendy Faith Monika Fludernik Revathi Krishnaswamy Mary Lawlor Victor Li Pamela McCallum Vijay Mishra Wang Ning Kalpana Sheshadri-Crooks
About the authors
Pamela McCallum is a professor of English at the University of Calgary. She was one of the founding members of the editorial group for Cultural Critique at the University of Minnesota, and she is currently editor of the journal ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. Her research is focused around questions of representation, mainly in narrative, but sometimes in other cultural texts, such as film and the visual arts. She has written on Montreal artist Dominique Blain's installations and on the Vancouver artist Landon Mackenzie's paintings.
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Wendy Faith is currently pursuing PhD studies in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.
Wendy Faith is currently pursuing PhD studies in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.
Wendy Faith is currently pursuing PhD studies in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.
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Victor Li is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.
Wang Ning is a professor of English and director of the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Tsinghua University.