Comparing Postcolonial Literatures

Bringing together a range of critics working on the hispanic and francophone as well as anglophone post-colonial regions, this book aims to dislocate some of the commonly accepted cultural, linguistic and geographical boundaries that have previously informed post-colonial studies. Collected essays include: cross-cultural comparisons from areas as diverse as Africa, Ireland and Latin America; analysis of specific texts as sites of border conflict; and revisions of post-colonial theoretical frameworks. A timely questioning of the categories of a critical field at the point when it is becoming increasingly comparative, this volume seeks to suggest more dynamic ways of working in post-colonial cultural studies.

NARA ARAUJO Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Havana, currently Visiting Professor, Universidad Autonama Metropolitana, Mexico City
AIDAN ARROWSMITH Lecturer in Literary Studies, Staffordshire University
CATHERINE DAVIES Professor of Spanish, University of Manchester
SUSAN FORSYTH Ph.D. student, Christ Church College, Canterbury
SAM HAIGH Lecturer in French Studies, University of Warwick
WILSON HARRIS Distinguished writer and essayist
LIAM HARTE Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies, St Mary's University College, London
C.L. INNES Professor of Postcolonial Literatures, University of Kent
WILLY MALEY Reader in English Literature, University of Glasgow
DAVID MARRIOTT Lecturer, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
LANCE PETTITT Lecturer, St Mary's University College, London
DAVID RICHARDS Senior Lecturer in English and Deputy Director of the African Studies Unit, University of Leeds
KEITH RICHARDS Lecturer in Spanish, University of Leeds
SUJALA SINGH Lecturer in English, University of Southampton
GERRY SMYTH Lecturer in Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University
GERALDINE STONEHAM Senior Lecturer, South Bank University
JOHN THIEME Professor and Head of English Studies, South Bank University
DENISE VERNON Teacher of Drama and Cultural Studies, University of Salford