The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary

Pramod K. Nayar is a highly respected authority in the field of post-colonialism, as well as the author of several books on this subject. He steps into a new role as author of a dictionary and acknowledges a long list of reviewers and bibliographic suggestions from colleagues to compile this text. Nayar is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Hyderabad, India.

The dictionary begins with a very brief, but richly packed, introduction to post-colonial studies, with a history of the theories impacting the field since the 1980s’ approach of literary and scientific discourses to the present...