Colonialism/Postcolonialism

This accessible volume provides a vital introduction to the historical dimensions and theoretical concepts associated with colonial and postcolonial discourses. Ania Loomba examines: * the key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism * the relationship of colonial discourse to literature * challenges to colonialism, surveying anticolonial discourses, and recent developments in post-colonial theories and histories * how sexuality is figured in the texts of colonialism, and also how c