This is the first reference guide to the political, cultural and economic histories that form the subject-matter of postcolonial literatures written in English.
The majority of the entries focus on the period after the end of colonial rule in Britain's Empire, but as many postcolonial literary works re-visit the period
The first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial lite
The growing debate over British national identity, and the place of "Englishness" within it, raises crucial questions about multiculturalism, postimperial cultu