In this historicalcontext, the category of Third World literature emerged, a categorythat has itself spawned a whole industry of scholarly and criticalstudies, particularly in the metropolitan West, but increasingly in thehomelands of the Third World itself.Setting himselfagainst the growing tendency to homogenize Third World literature andcultures, Aijaz Ahmad has produced a s...(展开全部)

The authors, three leading figures in post-colonial studies, open up debates about the interrelationships of post-colonial literatures, investigate the powerful forces acting on language in the post-colonial text, and show how these texts constitute a radical critique of Eurocentric notions of literature and language.

The authors, three leading figures in post-colonial studies, open up debates about the interrelationships of post-colonial literatures, investigate the powerful forces acting on language in the post-colonial text, and show how these texts constitute a radical critique of Eurocentric notions of literature and language.

The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of liter...(展开全部)

埃里克·欧林·赖特(Erik Olin Wright)，1947年出生于加利福尼亚的伯克利。1968年毕业并获得社会研究的学士学位之后，他在牛津大学两年，主要跟随克里斯托弗-希尔研究历史，1970年返回美国后的一年里，他参加了伯克利的一神论神学研究会，期间还在圣昆廷监狱做过实习牧师。1971年,他进入加州大学研究生院研究社会学，直到1976年春完成他的博士论文《阶级结构和收入不平等》。作为《阶级、危机和国家》(新左派图书公司，1980)的作者，他目前是麦迪逊市威斯康星大学社会学教授。

Nations and Nationalism in World History challenges the commonly accepted understanding of nations as being exclusively modern and European in origin by drawing attention to evidence that indicates that nations are found in antiquity and the Middle Ages, and throughout the world. Locating the concept of nations at all periods of history and around the world, Steven Grosby discu...(展开全部)