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The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literature Languages and literature Reference Reviews Volume 31 · Number 4 · 2017 · 21-26 The True Story is listed under its famous events that took place, alongside landmark co-screenwriter “Isherwood, Christopher” novels, though it should be noted that this is rather than director Jack Smight, who warrants not a comprehensive list and therefore some no entry in the index at all. avid readers might find some exclusions Such minor caveats aside, The Cambridge contentious in terms of the importance of Companion to Frankenstein is a considerable certain titles to the field. achievement. Woven into a coherent and From there, the book branches out into attractive whole – unlike Victor’s unfortunate essays that explore key themes in postcolonial creature – it serves as a useful survey of novels. Geography is not one of these key current research on this most rich and most themes, surprisingly perhaps, so readers studied of texts. Easily affordable by students hoping for a rundown of how postcolonial and the general reader, it will prove a useful literature has developed in India will be poorly addition to any university collection on the served. Instead, the rich vein of subjects humanities. includes life since the end of the Cold War, Keith M.C. O’Sullivan magic and realism, nature, disability, gender, Senior Rare Books Librarian, representations of space and the city and, Aberdeen University Library, Aberdeen, UK perhaps, most unexpectedly, crime. The essays act as primers, touching on key texts and Reference surveying the landscape of postcolonial fiction, with, as one might expect from Cambridge Schor, E. (Ed.) (2003), The Cambridge Companion to Mary University Press, rigorous referencing in the Shelley Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. form of footnotes that point readers towards other critical texts and fiction that the reader might not have considered. Naturally, focus RR 2017/104 falls primarily on late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century texts, as this is the period The Cambridge Companion to that postcolonialism truly arises as a Postcolonial Literature movement. As a result of reviewing this book, Edited by Ato Quayson I have developed a reading list of texts to seek Cambridge University Press out. Cambridge The authors are academics based within Canadian, Australian and UK universities who lx  273 pp. have often authored texts focussed on postcolonial literature, which ensures that the ISBN 978 1 107 13281 8 (hbck); reader can be sure they are dealing with ISBN 978 1 107 55805 9 (pbck) £54.99 $89.99 (hbck); experts in their field. The essays are argued £18.99 $29.99 (pbck); $24 (e-book) with the academic rigour that one would hope, Cambridge Companions to Literature with arguments conducted with logic and Keywords Imperialism, Literature example. An extensive index means that Review DOI 10.1108/RR-01-2017-0016 readers can easily pick out the sections of the book that centre on subjects that interest Is the novel an effective expression of them, be they themes, authors or localities. colonialism? Does the acceptance of its form One would expect quality from the Cambridge as legitimate literature, as opposed to oral University Press, and it is hard to fault this traditions, alongside its inherent acceptance of publication. Western modes of production and delivery Ultimately, this book will surely be of make it an art form that strengthens the interest to students of literature, particularly existing power structures in the world, or can it be used to break that system from within? If those in higher education who are currently you believe it is, and that it can, then the working with postcolonial literatures and who chances are you will find something of interest will find starting points for their studies in this with The Cambridge Companion to the book. They are clearly the intended audience. Postcolonial Novel. Working from a historical However, the importance of engaging with rather than geographical standpoint, it starts discourses around empire means that the book by discussing the rise of the novel, which can surely find its place in any library that has happened to coincide with the colonial a remit for educating. movements of the great European empires, Stuart Bentley and particularly with the colonialism found Assistant Librarian, University of Hull, Hull, within those early monographs. A timeline in the front of the book addresses the world UK http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Reference Reviews Emerald Publishing

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literature

Bentley, Stuart
Reference Reviews , Volume 31 (4): 1 – May 15, 2017
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Languages and literature Reference Reviews Volume 31 · Number 4 · 2017 · 21-26 The True Story is listed under its famous events that took place, alongside landmark co-screenwriter “Isherwood, Christopher” novels, though it should be noted that this is rather than director Jack Smight, who warrants not a comprehensive list and therefore some no entry in the index at all. avid readers might find some exclusions Such minor caveats aside, The Cambridge contentious in terms of the importance of Companion to Frankenstein is a considerable certain titles to the field. achievement. Woven into a coherent and From there, the book branches out into attractive whole – unlike Victor’s unfortunate essays that explore key themes in postcolonial creature – it serves as a useful survey of novels. Geography is not one of these key current research on this most rich and most themes, surprisingly perhaps, so readers studied of texts. Easily affordable by students hoping for a rundown of how postcolonial and the general reader, it will prove a useful literature has developed in India will be poorly addition to any university collection on the served. Instead, the rich vein of subjects humanities. includes life since the end of the Cold War, Keith M.C. O’Sullivan magic and realism, nature, disability, gender, Senior Rare Books Librarian, representations of space and the city and, Aberdeen University Library, Aberdeen, UK perhaps, most unexpectedly, crime. The essays act as primers, touching on key texts and Reference surveying the landscape of postcolonial fiction, with, as one might expect from Cambridge Schor, E. (Ed.) (2003), The Cambridge Companion to Mary University Press, rigorous referencing in the Shelley Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. form of footnotes that point readers towards other critical texts and fiction that the reader might not have considered. Naturally, focus RR 2017/104 falls primarily on late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century texts, as this is the period The Cambridge Companion to that postcolonialism truly arises as a Postcolonial Literature movement. As a result of reviewing this book, Edited by Ato Quayson I have developed a reading list of texts to seek Cambridge University Press out. Cambridge The authors are academics based within Canadian, Australian and UK universities who lx  273 pp. have often authored texts focussed on postcolonial literature, which ensures that the ISBN 978 1 107 13281 8 (hbck); reader can be sure they are dealing with ISBN 978 1 107 55805 9 (pbck) £54.99 $89.99 (hbck); experts in their field. The essays are argued £18.99 $29.99 (pbck); $24 (e-book) with the academic rigour that one would hope, Cambridge Companions to Literature with arguments conducted with logic and Keywords Imperialism, Literature example. An extensive index means that Review DOI 10.1108/RR-01-2017-0016 readers can easily pick out the sections of the book that centre on subjects that interest Is the novel an effective expression of them, be they themes, authors or localities. colonialism? Does the acceptance of its form One would expect quality from the Cambridge as legitimate literature, as opposed to oral University Press, and it is hard to fault this traditions, alongside its inherent acceptance of publication. Western modes of production and delivery Ultimately, this book will surely be of make it an art form that strengthens the interest to students of literature, particularly existing power structures in the world, or can it be used to break that system from within? If those in higher education who are currently you believe it is, and that it can, then the working with postcolonial literatures and who chances are you will find something of interest will find starting points for their studies in this with The Cambridge Companion to the book. They are clearly the intended audience. Postcolonial Novel. Working from a historical However, the importance of engaging with rather than geographical standpoint, it starts discourses around empire means that the book by discussing the rise of the novel, which can surely find its place in any library that has happened to coincide with the colonial a remit for educating. movements of the great European empires, Stuart Bentley and particularly with the colonialism found Assistant Librarian, University of Hull, Hull, within those early monographs. A timeline in the front of the book addresses the world UK

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