Postcolonial Theory and the United States
Subtitle: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature
Contributors: Amritjit Singh (Editor); Peter Schmidt (Editor)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9781578062522
Subjects: United States; Ethnic groups; Sociology - Social Theory; World - Post-Colonial Studies; 20th century; History; Minority authors; American literature; Social Science; Sociology; History and criticism; Semiotics & Theory; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Anthropology - Cultural
First sentence: For those scholars for whom questions of race, ethnicity, and empire are central, U.S. studies in the 1990s has gained immensely from dialogue with the emergent field called "postcolonial studies," which provided comparative historical analyses of these issues from global or transnational perspectives.