McLeod, J (2015) The Journal of Commonwealth Literature in the 1970s. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 50 (3). 282 - 296. ISSN 0021-9894
Abstract
This article looks back across the development of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature in the 1970s and considers its evolution in the context of the wider disciplinary shift from Commonwealth Literature to postcolonial studies. It argues that the editorial generosity and wisdom of editor Arthur Ravenscroft empowered important opportunities of critique for contributors, some of whom anticipated the subsequent concerns of postcolonial thought in contending with the predominant Leavisite paradigms of Commonwealth literary criticism and arguing for a politicized, provincializing new mode of critical activity. In reviewing the journal in the 1970s, we might note that the shift from Commonwealth to postcolonial was more organic and transitional than is sometimes claimed.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2015. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Arthur Ravenscroft; Commonwealth; 1970s; postcolonial; Journal of Commonwealth Literature |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2015 15:36 |
Last Modified: | 20 Jan 2018 20:53 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989415594653 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Sage Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0021989415594653 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:87965 |