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: Hardcover
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9781578062515
Subjects: Theory Of Literature; Sociology; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Social Science; World - Post-Colonial Studies; 20th century; Anthropology - Cultural; History; 20th Century American Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ethnic groups; United States; American - General; History and criticism; American literature; Minority authors
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.