Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Human Rights in a 'Post'-Colonial World
Author(s): Peter H. Marsden (Volume Editor); Geoffrey V. Davis (Volume Editor)
Literary - Studies, Criticism, Theory | Social Sciences
Studying postcolonial literatures in English can (and indeed should) make a human rights activist of the reader - there is, after all, any amount of evidence to show the injustices and inhumanity thrown up by processes of decolonization and the struggle with past legacies and present corruptions. Yet the human-rights aspect of postcolonial literary studies has been somewhat marginalized by scholars preoccupied with more fashionable questions of theory. The present collection seeks to redress this neglect, whereby the definition of human rights adopted is intentionally broad. The volume reflects the human rights situation in many countries from Mauritius to New Zealand, from the Cameroon to Canada. It includes a focus on the Malawian writer Jack Mapanje.
ASNEL Papers 8. Cross/Cultures 76.
Very good condition.
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- : Rodopi B.V. Editions
- : 0.717
- : 01 January 2004
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Special Fields
- : Peter H. Marsden (Volume Editor); Geoffrey V. Davis (Volume Editor)
- : Hardback
- : English
- : XV, 331