Books by Wendy Knepper

Examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. An important addition to Caribbean literary studies, Patrick Chamoiseau is an indispensable work for scholars interested in francophone, Caribbean, and world literatures as well as cultural studies.

This volume mines the diversity and richness of the literature and literary theory produced in the postcolonial era, discussing texts and ideas from all over the world such Heart of Darkness, Wide Sargasso Sea, The Mimic Men, Beloved and the poetry collection Born to Slow Horses. Topics such as race, gender and sexuality, globalisation and multiculturalism are featured alongside postcolonial reading practices and explorations of key concepts such as cross-cultural paradigms, hybridity and decolonisation.