Veni,vidi, vici: postcolonial studies comes of age |
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| Authors: | Tony Simoes da Silva |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, Australiatonys@uow.edu.au |
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| Abstract: | This review article offers a critical assessment of Ato Quayson's Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (2012), engaging in passing with a debate between postcolonial theorists that appeared also in 2012 in the New Literary History (43.1 & 2). It posits that the History presents postcolonial literature, and indeed postcolonial studies, as much too settled fields, a view clearly at odds both with their genesis and with that reflected in the essays in NLH. |
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| Keywords: | Postcolonial literature postcolonial studies postcolonial dissent postcolonial canon |
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