Download or read book Postcolonial Studies and the Literary written by E. Sorensen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics have argued that the field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic due to its institutionalization in recent years. This book identifies some limits of postcolonial studies and suggests ways of coming to terms with this issue via a renewed engagement with the literary dimension in the postcolonial text.