Veni, Vidi, Vici: Postcolonial Studies Comes of Age

Authors

Antonio J. Simoes da Silva, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

93193

Publication Details

Simoes da Silva, T. (2014). Veni, Vidi, Vici: Postcolonial Studies Comes of Age. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 48 (3), 463-471.

Link to publisher version (URL)

Canadian Journal of African Studies – Taylor & Francis

Abstract

This review article offers a critical assessment of Ato Quayson’s Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (2012), engaging in passing with a debate between postcolonial theorists that appeared also in 2012 in the New Literary History (43.1 & 2). It posits that the History presents postcolonial literature, and indeed postcolonial studies, as much too settled fields, a view clearly at odds both with their genesis and with that reflected in the essays in NLH.