Colonial and Post-colonial Encounters

Niaz Zaman , Firdous Azim , Shawkat Hussain

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English (US)

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The University Press Limited

First Published

1999

Page Length

228

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Literature has been radically transformed since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 and is veering towards what is becoming better known as cultural studies. Said's seminal work led to a heightened consciousness about the need to reexamine texts from colonial archives and the importance of situating ourselves in a post-colonial world still struggling to dispel traces of colonialism. The essays in Colonial and Post-Colonial Encounters discuss the influence, both direct and indirect, of Edward Said. Among other issues discussed in this volume are "post-coloniality," identity-forming, and writings by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein, George Orwell, Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor, and Amitav Ghosh. Papers on art and architecture from colonial times to contemporary Bangladesh are also included in this volume which forms a valuable addition to contemporary discussions on post-colonialism.

Niaz Zaman

Niaz Zaman has edited several anthologies, including Selected Stories from Bangladesh, 1971 and After, The Escape and Other Stories. Her study of the Partition, A Divided Legacy: The Partition in Selected Novels of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, won the Atwar Hussain Award of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh and the National Archives Award. She was consulting editor, Arts and Humanities for Banglapedia and editor of the Bangladesh Journal of American Studies.

Firdous Azim

Firdous Azim is a Professor at Department of English in University of Dhaka. Her main interests are in feminist and colonial literary criticism. She is the author of The Colonial Rise of the Novel. She is co-editor of Other Englishes: Essays on Commonwealth Writing; Infinite Variety: Women in Society and Literature and Different Perspectives.

Shawkat Hussain

Shawkat Hussain is a Professor, at the Department of English, University of Dhaka. His main interests are Victorian Literature, Shakespeare and South Asian Literature in English. He is co-editor of Other Englishes: Essays on Commonwealth Writing and was Associate Editor of Dhaka University of Studies (journal of the Faculty of Arts).