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