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Reprinted from bill ashcroft, gareth griffiths, and helen tiffin, the empire writes back. Tiffin is an adjunct professor of english at the university of wollongong, australia, and an influential writer in postcolonial theory and literary studies tiffin returned to australia from canada to take up her present post at the university of tasmania. Bill ashcroft, gareth griffiths, helen tiffin anteprima non disponibile 2002. Related titles from routledge the cultural studies reader. The growing currency within the academy of the term postcolonial sometimes hyphenated was consolidated by the appearance in 1989 of the empire writes back. Ashcroft, bill, gareth griffiths, and helen tiffin.
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