Past the Last Post
Theorising Post-colonialism and Post-modernism
Published on 1. July 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
214 pages
978-0-7450-1591-0 (ISBN)
Description
Authors from the post-colonial cultures of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, the Carribean and Canada examine post-colonial theory and practices in relation to those of postmodernism. They explore texts by Jerzy Kozinsky, Peter Carey, Salman Rushdie, Merle Hodge, Nelson Mandela and Angela Carter, and such textual and theoretical issues as post-colonialism's anthropological, cartological and feminist connections and relations to post-Saussurean thought. This text is intended for students and teachers of literary and critical theory.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
349 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7450-1591-0 (9780745015910)
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Previous edition
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03/1991
Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf
€69.52
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Content
Modernism's last post, Stephen Slemon; narration in the post-colonial moment - Merle Hodge's crick crack monkey, Simon Gikandi; waiting for the post - some relations between modernity, colonization and writing, Simon During; "Numinous Proportions" - Wilson Harris's alternative to all "posts". "The Empire Writes Back" - language and history in shame and midnight's children, Aruna Srivastava; breaking the chain - anti-Saussurean resistance in Birney, Carey and C.S. Peirce, Ian Adam; post, post and post. Or, where is South African literature in all this?, Annamaria Carusi. Slip page - Angela Carter, in/out/in the post-modern nexus, Robert Rawdon Wilson; decolonizing the map - post-colonialism and the cartographic connection, Graham Huggan; what was post-modernism?, John Frow; being there, being there - Kosinsky and Malouf, Gareth Griffiths; "Circling the downspout and Empire", Linda Hutcheon; the white inuit speaks - contamination as literary strategy, Diana Brydon.