January 2014 Academic & Specialist Literary History & Criticism

Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature

Postcolonial Literature Dave Gunning

Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature

Postcolonial Literature
Dave Gunning


This guide places the literary works themselves at the centre of its discussions, examining how writers from Africa, Australasia, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, and South Asia have engaged with the challenges that beset postcolonial societies. Dave Gunning discusses many of the most-studied works of postcolonial literature, from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart to Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, and works by more recent writers like Chris Abani, Tahmima Anam and Shani Mootoo.