Books by John (University of East Anglia Thieme

Works such a Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea" and Peter Carey's "Jack Maggs", which "write back" to classic English texts, offer a paradigm for the relationship between post-colonial writings and the "canon". This study provides an overview of such writing.

An interdisciplinary guide to the various concepts, practices and cultural products that have come to be known as 'postcolonial'. It provides an essential orientation map for undergraduates taking courses in postcolonial literature and theory and postcolonial studies.