Critics and Writers Speak: Revisioning Post-Colonial Studies - Softcover

Igor Maver is Professor of English at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

In this book by Igor Maver, a foremost thinker from post-socialist Slovenia, the term "post-colonial," once a household term with its detailed history of cosmetic whims, takes a vertiginous dip, seethes for a while, with other master signifiers, in the caldron of diasporic theory, to then resurface, humbled and changed utterly. (Chantal Zabus, University of Paris XIII)

Igor Maver's edited collection of essays and interviews makes an important contribution to the current debate on the future of postcolonial studies.... Maver strikes an admirable balance, acknowledging the accomplishments of post-colonial studies as well as pointing out its exhausted current status.... Both schoarls and students of literature in English will sharpen their sense of the history of the terminology and the issues facing post-colonial studies today by reading Maver's collection of essays and interviews. (Commonwealth, Autumn 2008, Vol 31, No 1)

This lively, intelligent, and wide-ranging book is also very timely. Combining a judicious introduction, essays, and interviews, Critics and Writers Speak: Revisioning Post-Colonial Studies will help its readers to understand one of the most important developments in literary theory of the last twenty years. Charting the movement from post-colonialism understood as post-independence writing to post-colonialism understood as a set of discursive practices, Critics and Writers Speak exhibits the underlying coherence of its subject and forecasts many of its directions of future development. I recommend this book most highly. (Karl F. Zender, University of California at Davis)