Colonial Discourse / Postcolonial Theory
Published on 27. June 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-7190-4876-0 (ISBN)
Description
The issues of colonialism and imperialism have recently come to the forefront of thinking in the humanities. Disciplines such as history, literature and anthropology are taking stock of their extensive and usually unacknowledged legacy of Empire. At the same time, contemporary cultural theory has had to respond to post-colonial pressure, with its different registers and agendas. This volume ranges, geographically, from Brazil to India and South Africa, from the Andes to the Caribbean and the USA. This range is matched by a breadth of historical perspectives. Central to the whole volume is a critique of the very idea of the "postcolonial" itself. Contributors include Annie Coombes, Simon During, Peter Hulme, Neil Lazarus, David Lloyd, Anne McClintock, Zita Nunes, Benita Parry, Graham Pechey, Mary Louise Pratt, Renato Rosaldo and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
459 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-4876-0 (9780719048760)
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Persons
Francis Barker is a Reader and Peter Hulme is a Professor in the Department of Literature, and Margaret Iversen is a Lecturer in the Department of Art History, all at the University of Essex -- .
Content
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Transculturation and autoethnography: Peru 1615/1980
Mary Louise Pratt
Chapter 2 Rousseau's patrimony: primitivism, romance and becoming other
Simon During
Chapter 3 The locked heart: the creole family romance of Wide Sargasso Sea
Peter Hulme
Chapter 4 The recalcitrant object: culture contact and the question of hybritidy
Annie E. Coombes
Chapter 5 Anthropology and race in Brazilian modernism
Zita Nunes
Chapter 6 How to read a 'culturally different' book
Gayatri Spivak
Chapter 7 Post-apartheid narratives
Graham Pechey
Chapter 8 Resistance theory/theorising resistance, or two cheers for nativism
Benita Parry
Chapter 9 National consicousness and the specificity of (post) colonial intellectualism
Neil Lazarus
Chapter 10 Ethnic cultures, minority discourse and the state
David Lloyd
Chapter 11 Social justice and the crisis of national communities
Renato Rosaldo
Chapter 12 The angel of progress: pitfalls of the term 'postcolonialism'
Anne McClintock
References
Notes on contributors
Index -- .
Introduction
Chapter 1 Transculturation and autoethnography: Peru 1615/1980
Mary Louise Pratt
Chapter 2 Rousseau's patrimony: primitivism, romance and becoming other
Simon During
Chapter 3 The locked heart: the creole family romance of Wide Sargasso Sea
Peter Hulme
Chapter 4 The recalcitrant object: culture contact and the question of hybritidy
Annie E. Coombes
Chapter 5 Anthropology and race in Brazilian modernism
Zita Nunes
Chapter 6 How to read a 'culturally different' book
Gayatri Spivak
Chapter 7 Post-apartheid narratives
Graham Pechey
Chapter 8 Resistance theory/theorising resistance, or two cheers for nativism
Benita Parry
Chapter 9 National consicousness and the specificity of (post) colonial intellectualism
Neil Lazarus
Chapter 10 Ethnic cultures, minority discourse and the state
David Lloyd
Chapter 11 Social justice and the crisis of national communities
Renato Rosaldo
Chapter 12 The angel of progress: pitfalls of the term 'postcolonialism'
Anne McClintock
References
Notes on contributors
Index -- .