Abstract
While distinctions between mother and stepmother tongue continue to be eroded, current post-colonial paradigms face a similar threat of obsolescence. The aim of this postscript, then, is to attempt another kind of “extroduction”, and suggest how, or to what extent, post-colonial theory could also be displaced in the near future.
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Extroduction
Two books mentioned in the context of Indian fiction, Writers of the Indian Diaspora (1993) and Reworlding: the Literature of the Indian Diaspora, respectively edited and authored by Emmanuel S. Nelson, are highly relevant here.
Simon Gikandi’s Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992) consistently emphasizes the theme of exile.
Various contributions to the New Essays in American Ethnic Literatures series, particularly in the volume Memory, Narrative, and Identity (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1994), edited by Amritjit Singh et al., are suggestive. Certain essays in
Salman Rushdie’s Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981–1991 (London: Granta Books, 1992) are seminal.
Afterword
Bibliographical details of a number of works mentioned in this section are given at the end of the Introduction (p. 26).
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Skinner, J. (1998). Afterword. In: The Stepmother Tongue. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26898-6_12
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