The term ‘postcolonial literatures in English’ designates English-language literatures from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania, as well as the literatures of diasporic communities who have moved from those regions to the global north. This volume introduces the central themes of postcolonial literary studies and delineates how these themes are reflected and elaborated in exemplary literary works by postcolonial authors from around the world. It also offers succinct definitions of key terms like Orientalism, hybridity, Indigeneity or writing back.

Anke Bartels is Lecturer of English at the University of Potsdam.

Lars Eckstein is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Potsdam.

Nicole Waller is Professor of American Studies at the University of Potsdam.