English Postcoloniality by Radhika Mohanram

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Colonial mores and power systems clashed and combined with indigenous traditions to create postcolonial texts.

This volume treats postcoloniality as a process of cultural and linguistic interplay, in which British culture initially suppressed indigenous cultures and later combined with them after the decline of the British empire.

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English Postcoloniality by Radhika Mohanram

Colonial mores and power systems clashed and combined with indigenous traditions to create postcolonial texts. This volume treats postcoloniality as a process of cultural and linguistic interplay, in which British culture initially suppressed indigenous cultures and later combined with them after the decline of the British empire.
RADHIKA MOHANRAM is Lecturer in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, where she teaches gender and postcolonial theory. She has published widely on postcolonial theory and literature and is currently finishing a book on Edith Wharton and Diasporic subjectivity. GITA RAJAN teaches Victorian literature and postcolonial discourse at Fairfield University./e She was an Andrew Mellon Fellow in Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and had a fellowship from Yale Center for British Art.
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ISBN 13 9780313288548
ISBN 10 0313288542
Title English Postcoloniality
Author Radhika Mohanram
Series Contributions To The Study Of World Literature
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year published 1996-04-30
Number of pages 232
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