The Empire Writes Back

The Empire Writes Back by Bill Ashcraft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin was the first major theoritical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture and remains one of the most significant works published in this field. The authors, three leading figures in post colonial studies open up debates about the interrelationship of post-colonial culture, investigate the powerful forces acting on language in the post-colonial texts and show how this texts constitute a redical critique of euro-centric notions of literature and language. This book is brilliant not only for incissive analysies but also for its acceptibility to the readers new in the field. Now with an additional chapter and an updated bibliography, The Empire Writes Back is essential for contemporary post-colonial studies.