Using the Master's Tools
Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas
Published on 29. June 2000
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-333-91530-1 (ISBN)
Description
Through close readings of works by writers like C.L.R. James, Salman Rushdie, Ama Ata Aidoo, Michelle Cliff, and Hanif Kureishi, this book examines instances of textual resistance elaborated within imperial/metropolitan epistemologies and ideologies. It focuses especially on each writer's historical location, personal and political affiliations, presumed audiences, and her/his position on gender as integral contextual determinants of the strategies of textual resistance each deploys.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-91530-1 (9780333915301)
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Person
ANURADHA DINGWANEY NEEDHAM is Associate Professor of English at Oberlin College.
Content
PART I - In, But Not of, the West: Repetition, Appropriation, Re-Visions of Dominant Colonial Knowledges - Inhabiting the Metropole: C.L.R. James's 'Grand Narratives' of Resistance and Emancipation - Re-Playing the Indian Subcontinent: Salman Rushdie's Method(s) of Critique - PART II - Return(s) to the Native Land: The Politics of Cultural Nationalism - Reversing Europe's Gaze: Ama Ata Aidoo's Oppositional Art - 'Retracing the African Part of Ourselves': Blackness as Revolutionary Consciousness and Identity in Michelle Cliff. - PART III - In and of the (Imperial) Metropole - 'A New Way of Being British': Hanif Kureishi's (Necessary) Defence of Mixtures and Heterogeneity