Postcolonial Criticism: History, Theory and the Work of FictionISBN: 978-0-7456-2182-1
Paperback
232 pages
April 2003, Polity
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In this important and timely book, Harrison sheds new light on
what is actually at issue in postcolonial criticism. Focusing on a
series of major works, from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
to Djebar’s autobiography, via Camus’s The
Outsider and Fanon’s polemics, the book draws on and
elucidates a wide range of theoretical and critical work. To
students unfamiliar with postcolonial criticism it offers a way
into the field via key issues and specific examples rather than
abstract theoretical summary, while for those already working in
the area it raises crucial questions about the very basis of
postcolonial critical practice.
Postcolonial Criticism is a major intervention in the field of postcolonial studies which re-examines critical suppositions about reading and representation, and which calls into question established notions about the relations between literature and colonialism.