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...introduces readers to The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, edited by Neil Lazarus. The year 1955, that chronology tells its readers, saw the publication of Aime Cesaire's Discourse on Colonialism, Nu's An Asian Speaks, Amrita Pritam's Messages, Juan Rulfo's Pedro Phrama, Saadi Youssef's Songs Not for Others and Wang Meng's The Young New Newcomer. Tellingly, the 1955 authors cited hailed, at the time of publication, from Martinique, Burma, India, Mexico, Iraq and China. Those writers appear in the column of 'literary and other writings', but are correlated significantly with the chronology's left-hand listing--'political/historical events'. Under that heading, identifying the significant events of 1955, appear the Bandung Conference, the adoption of South Africa's Freedom Charter and the outbreak of civil war in South Vietnam. There are other years worth remembering too--indeed all of them in the chronology, whether 1914 and the beginning of the first world war or 2000 and the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada, and all those other annuaries before, after and in between. But the...

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