About the Book: Postcolonial Indian Literature Toward a Critical Framework
The field of Postcolonial Studies, which has been gaining prominence since the
1970s, has inspired some of the most challenging academic work in recent years.
Postcolonialism, however remains an elusive and contested term. It possesses a
genealogy is linked to the history of colonialism. Critics such as Edward Said,
Homi Bhabha, Aijaz Ahmad, Abdul JanMohamed, Chinua Achebe, Gayatri Spivak, Ngugi
wa ThiongO and Ashis Nandy have questioned the Eurocentric assumptions of the
western formulations, to critically engage with the literatures of the third
world written in English and other national languages. Postcolonial criticism
has a salutary effect in