Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory
Published on 21. April 1994
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-7190-3979-9 (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
Illustrations
13 b&w illustrations, references, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-3979-9 (9780719039799)
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Content
Transculturation and autoethnography - Peru 1615/1980, Mary Louise Pratt; Rousseau's patrimony - primitivism, romance and becoming other, Simon During; the locked heart - the Creole family romance of "Wide Sargasso Sea", Peter Hulme; the recalcitrant object - culture contact and the question of hybridity, Annie Coombes; anthropology and race in Brazilian modernism, Zita Nunes; how to read a "culturally different" book, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; post-apartheid narratives, Graham Pechey; resistance theory/theorizing resistance, or two cheers for nativism, Benita Parry; national consciousness and the specificity of (post)colonial intellectualism, Neil Lazarus; ethnic cultures, minority discourse and the state, David Lloyd; social justice and the crisis of national communities, Renato Rosaldo; the angel of history - pitfalls of the term "postcolonialism", Anne McClintock.