Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts
Theory and Criticism
Published on 23. October 1995
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-313-29693-2 (ISBN)
Description
Postcolonial discourse is fast becoming an area of rich academic debate. At the heart of coloniality and postcoloniality is the contested authority of empire and its impact upon previously colonized peoples and their indigenous cultures.
This book examines various theories of colonization and decolonization, and how the ideas of a British empire create networks of discourses in contemporary postcolonial cultures. The various essays in this book address the question of empire by exploring such constructs as nation and modernity, third-world feminisms, identity politics, the status and roles of exiles, exilic subjectivities, border intellectuals, and the presence of a postcolonial body in today's classrooms. Topics discussed include African-American literature, the nature of postcolonial texts in first-world contexts, jazz, films, and TV as examples of postcolonial discourse, and the debates surrounding biculturalism and multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia.
This book examines various theories of colonization and decolonization, and how the ideas of a British empire create networks of discourses in contemporary postcolonial cultures. The various essays in this book address the question of empire by exploring such constructs as nation and modernity, third-world feminisms, identity politics, the status and roles of exiles, exilic subjectivities, border intellectuals, and the presence of a postcolonial body in today's classrooms. Topics discussed include African-American literature, the nature of postcolonial texts in first-world contexts, jazz, films, and TV as examples of postcolonial discourse, and the debates surrounding biculturalism and multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
531 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-29693-2 (9780313296932)
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Persons
Gita Rajan teaches Victorian Literature, Cultural Studies, and Postcolonial Discourse at Fairfield University. She has published widely in all three areas, and is currently working on the predicament of aesthetics in colonized cultures. She was an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and has also held a fellowship at the Yale Center for British Art.
Radhika Mohanram is a lecturer in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, where she teaches gender and postcolonial theory. She has published widely on postcolonial theory and literature and is currently finishing a book on Edith Wharton and Diasporic subjectivity.
Radhika Mohanram is a lecturer in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, where she teaches gender and postcolonial theory. She has published widely on postcolonial theory and literature and is currently finishing a book on Edith Wharton and Diasporic subjectivity.
Content
Introduction: Locating Postcoloniality by Gita Rajan and Radhika Mohanram Rereading Fanon, Rewriting Caribbean History by Patrick Taylor The Dialectics of Negritude: Or, the (Post)Colonial Subject in Contemporary African-American Literature by Christopher Wise The Colonial Voice in the Motherland by Judie Newman Minor Pleasures by Indira Karamcheti Women's Rights versus Feminism? Postcolonial Perspectives by Harveen Sachdeva Mann Plantation Cafes: Jazz, Postcolonial Theory, and Modernism by Burton W. Peretti Postcoloniality and the Politics of Identity in the Diaspora: Figuring Home, Locating Histories by Anindyo Roy Postcolonial Spaces and Deterritorialized (Homo)Sexuality: The Films of Hanif Kureishi by Radhika Mohanram Is My Body Proper? Postcoloniality in the Classroom by Gita Rajan The Media Scene and Postcolonial Theories: An Interview with Prajna Paramita Parasher by Gita Rajan "Retrospective Hallucination": Postcolonial Video as Cultural Critique by Amy Villarejo History, Folklore, and Commonsense: Sembene's Films and Discourses of Postcoloniality by Marcia Landy Biculturalism, Postcolonialism, and Identity Politics in New Zealand: An Interview with Anna Yeatman and Kaye Turner by Radhika Mohanram Postcolonialism/Multiculturalism--Australia 1993: An Interview with Sneja Gunew by Gita Rajan and Radhika Mohanram Selected Bibliography Index