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Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature.(Book Review)

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| June 22, 2003 | Dhar, Tej N. | COPYRIGHT 2003 The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnics Literature of the United States. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Ed. Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt. Jackson MS: U of Mississippi P, 2000. xix + 471 pages. $50 cloth; $26 paper.

Although postcolonial theory came into its own only a few years ago, it has already made remarkable gains in its reach and influence. It started with providing a reading strategy for literatures of the erstwhile colonies, which, in spite of differences in their provenance, bore common distinctive markers because of the shared experience of colonialism. In addition to absorbing the influences of imperial culture, such literatures also resisted this influence and colonial control by asserting their "differences from the assumptions of the imperial ...

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