This Guide analyses the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions of the postcolonial world. Criticism on works by writers such as Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie, is discussed to illustrate the themes and concepts essential to an understanding of postcolonial literature and the development of criticism in the field

JUSTN EDWARDS is currently Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge and Professor of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century English Literature at the University of Wales, UK.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Postcoloniality
Difference
Language
Orality
Rewriting
Violence
Travel
Maps
Gender
Queer
Haunting
Memory
Hybridity
Diaspora
Globalization
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.