The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English by C. L. Innes
Preface 1. Introduction: Situating the postcolonial 2. Postcolonial issues in performance 3. Alternative histories and writing back 4. Authorising the self: postcolonial autobiographical writing 5. Situating the self: landscape and place 6. Appropriating the word: language and voice 7. 'Narrating the nation': form and genre 8. Rewriting her story: nation and gender 9. Rewriting the nation: acknowledging economic and cultural diversity 10. Transnational and black British writing: colonising in reverse 11. Citizens of the world: reading postcolonial literature Glossary of critical terms Notes on main writers discussed Brief histories: Australia, The Caribbean, East Africa, India and Pakistan, Ireland, West Africa Bibliography.