K postkolonialismu

In this comprehensive compilation of her literary critical and translation studies, essays, and reviews from the period between 2001 and 2023, the Anglicist Alena Dvořáková provides an overview and analyses of key literary works classified as what is referred to as postcolonial literature written or reflected upon in English. She discusses in detail the works of world-famous novelists such as J. M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, V. S. Naipaul, Maryse Condé, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Doris Lessing, as well as deeply inspiring figures on the fringes of the Anglo-American literary canon (Anna Burns, Patrick White). The book is supplemented by an epilogue, bringing a literary theoretical approach and discussing the notion of postcolonialism itself. In the epilogue, the author also proposes her own conception of postcolonialism as a literary phenomenon consisting in a unique encounter with literary otherness in postcolonial territory, which requires of the reader an (in)appropriately free response.