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Beginning Postcolonialism, compiled by John McLeod, is a seminal work on post-colonial literature. It explains the main ideas of well-known, postcolonial critics, and gives readers a valuable breakup of the key issues, main historical points, and tension points in postcolonial theory. The book delves into colonial dissertation critically, and then sees how it reacts to nationalism. The author also discusses how readers must explore postcolonial literature on their own, and the themes they must look out for. The extensive bibliography provides readers with a vast reserve of reference works they can go through to increase their knowledge of the subject. About John McLeod John McLeod is an English academician currently serving as the Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. He specializes in representations of diasporic and transcultural locations, and has also compiled: The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies; Sovereignty, Power, Control: Politics in the States of Western India; The Counsellors Workbook: Developing a Personal Approach; Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, to China, Korea, and the Island of Lewchew: With an Account of Her Shipwreck; and Narrative of the Alceste’s Voyage to the Yellow Sea (1817).