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Postcolonial literature is a branch of literature concerned with the political and cultural independence of peoples formerly subjugated in colonial empires.
Notable authors within the genre include Salman Rushdie, Chinua Achebe and Hanif Kureishi.
See also
References
- The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English edited by John Thieme
- Chelsea 46: World Literature in English (1987)
- Poetry International 7/8 (2003-2004)
- Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English edited by Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly
- Commonwealth Literature: An Essay Towards the Re-definition of a Popular/Counter Culture by Alamgir Hashmi
- Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors by Elleke Boehmer
- A Sense of Place: Essays in Post-Colonial Literatures edited by Britta Olinder
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