Author Profile

Ajay Das after completing his PG and M. Phil in English literature from Ravenshaw University, formerly known as Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, Odisha, served as a lecturer in English in Biraja Women’s college and S.G. PG College, Odisha for ten years. He has completed post-graduation diploma in Journalism and Mass-Communication from University of Delhi. Presently he is residing in Delhi and devoted in writing and editing books, columns, and articles. More than 40 books from his pen have been published by reputed publishers in India and abroad. He has attended 67 symposiums in USA, UK, and Canada and awarded by IEC for his original writing.

About The Book

Post-colonial theory deals with the reading and writing of literature written in previously or currently colonized countries, or literature written in colonizing countries which deals with colonization or colonized peoples. It focuses particularly on the way in which literature by the colonizing culture distorts the experience and realities, and inscribes the inferiority, of the colonized people on literature by colonized peoples which attempts to articulate their identity and reclaim their past in the face of that past’s inevitable otherness. It can also deal with the way in which literature in colonizing countries appropriates the language, images, scenes, traditions and so forth of colonized countries.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Some Issues in Postcolonial Theory
3. Post Structuralism and Post Modernism
4. Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
5. Colonialism
6. Postcolonial Literature and Critical Theory: Political and Historical Contexts
7. Themes in Theories of Colonialism and Postcolonialism
8. Postcolonial Literature, Feminism and the Women Today
9. Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Literature: Theorists and Critics
10. Feminist Theory
11. Orientalism and Beyond
12. Outstanding Works of Postcolonial Literature
Bibliography
Index