Postcolonial Literature (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism, 60) by Justin D. Edwards

Postcolonial Literature (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism, 60) Reviews

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  Eva

  First of: When I started reading this, I wasn't interested in Postcolonialism. At all.
  And now I am. I even feel a bit ashamed about how few I knew about it half a year ago.
  
  When I attended a course about Postcolonialism at University, we had to weekly read a chapter of this book in addition to one or two short stories and an other theoretical text, which were usually both mentioned by Edwards. Edwards was always used as an introduction to a new topic, e.g. diaspora, gender or theorizing race. Now it's rather difficult for me to rate this book (and the book alone), not the entire class I took. Maybe other readers will feel like Edwards doesn't explain things properly, doesn't leave place for own thoughts or treats the topic in a too shallow way – but I don't think so, maybe because these assumptions are wrong or because I always read (at least excerpts of the majority of) all the texts he cites and writes about and joined discussions about the treated topics.
  
  So I can recommend this book to basically everyone. What shouldn't be forgotten is that it is a theoretical text, about literary theories and politics – which doesn't exactly make the book an easy read (although Edwards doesn't write complicated at all!). And it's worth reading just for the better overall understanding of our world and knowledge you'll get out of it.
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  Céline Holmer

  Udemærket introduktion til postkolonial litteraturteori. Letlæselig og med mange relevante eksempler fra litteraturens verden.