The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies

Bringing together the most wide-ranging and up-to-date scholarship ever assembled on the colonial, postcolonial and neocolonial condition,The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies comprises nearly 400 authoritative, accessible entries on canonical writers, key texts, genres, literary debates, colonized regions and related terminology, covering the period from 1492 to the present.

• Brings together the most wide-ranging and up-to-date scholarship ever assembled on the colonial, postcolonial and neocolonial condition
• The first and only reference of its kind that treats colonial processes as global and millennial
• Close to 400 entries offer unprecedented coverage, exploring the dynamics of European conquest from Columbus to China, and critiques of colonialism from Las Casas to Gayatri Spivak
• Written by an international cast of leading scholars
• An essential reference for scholars in a broad range of fields, including world literature, anthropology, political science, sociology, gender, feminist and queer studies, history and history of science

Sangeeta Ray is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland. She is the author of two published books,Engendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives (2000) andGayatri Charavorty Spivak: In Other Words, (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). She has also co-edited A Companion to Postcolonial Studies, (with Henry Schwarz, Blackwell, 2000).