Postcolonial Contraventions
Published on 27. March 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-7190-5828-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book analyses black Atlantic studies, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory, providing paradigms for understanding imperial literature, Englishness and black transnationalism. Its concerns range from the metropolitan centre of Conrad's Heart of Darkness to fatherhood in Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk; from the marketing of South African literature to cosmopolitanism in Achebe; and from utopian discourse in Parry to Jameson's theorisation of empire. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-5828-8 (9780719058288)
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Content
Part One Imperialism: tale of the city - the imperial metropolis of "Heart of Darkness"; gendering imperialism - Anne McClintock and H. Rider Haggard; empire's culture in Frederic Jameson, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak. Part Two Transnationalism and race: journeying jnto death - Paul Gilroy's "Black Atlantic"; black Atlantic nationalism - Sol Plaatje and W.E.B. Du Bois; transnational productions of Englishness - South Africa in the postimperial metropole. Part Three Postcolonial theoretical politics: theorizing race, racism and culture - the work of David Lloyd; Robert Young and the ironic authority of postcolonial criticism; cultural studies in the new South Africa; "The Killer That Doesn't Pay Back" - Chinua Achebe's critique of cosmopolitics; You can get there from here - critique and affirmation in Benita Parry's thought.