Shirley Chew & David Richards 
A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature [PDF ebook] 

List of Illustrations vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Shirley Chew
1 Framing Identities 9
David Richards
2 Orality and Literacy 29
Part 1: India G.N. Devy
Part 2: South Africa Duncan Brown
3 The Politics of Rewriting 56
C.L. Innes
4 Postcolonial Translations 78
Susan Bassnett
5 Nation and Nationalisms 97
John Mc Leod
6 Feminism and Womanism 120
Nana Wilson-Tagoe
7 Cartographies and Visualization 141
David Howard
8 Marginality: Representations of Subalternity, Aboriginality and Race 162
Stephen Morton
9 Anthropology and Postcolonialism 182
Will Rea
10 Publishing Histories 204
Gail Low
Index 229

Shirley Chew is Emeritus Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Leeds. She has published widely in the field of Postcolonial literatures including the co-edited Unbecoming Daughters of the Empire (1993), Translating Life: Studies in Transpositional Aesthetics (1999) and Reconstructing the Book: Literary Texts in Transmission (2001). From 1992-1996 she co-edited The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. She is the founding editor Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writing.
David Richards is Professor of English Studies and Director of the Centre of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Stirling having previously held posts at the universities of Leeds and Birmingham and at the Open University, where he was the founding Director of the Ferguson Research Centre. His published works include Masks of Difference: Cultural Representations in Literature, Anthropology and Art (1995) and Urban Generations: Post-colonial Cities (Co-edited with Taieb Balghazi and Taoufik Agoumy, 2005).