Postcolonial Contraventions
Published on 19. July 2013
208 pages
978-1-84779-532-8 (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.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
1,92 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84779-532-8 (9781847795328)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Laura Chrisman
Content
Introduction
Part I Imperialism
1 Tale of the city: the imperial metropolis of Heart of Darkness
2 Gendering imperialism: Anne McClintock and H. Rider Haggard
3 Empire's culture in Fredric Jameson, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak
Part II Transnationalism and race
4 Journeying to death: Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic
5 Black Atlantic nationalism: Sol Plaatje and W.E.B. Du Bois
6 Transnational productions of Englishness: South Africa in the post-imperial metropole
Part III Postcolonial theoretical politics
7 Theorising race, racism and culture: David Lloyd's work
8 Robert Young and the ironic authority of postcolonial criticism
9 Cultural studies in the new South Africa
10 'The Killer That Doesn't Pay Back': Chinua Achebe's critique of cosmopolitics
11 You can get there from here: critique and utopia in Benita Parry's thought -- .
Part I Imperialism
1 Tale of the city: the imperial metropolis of Heart of Darkness
2 Gendering imperialism: Anne McClintock and H. Rider Haggard
3 Empire's culture in Fredric Jameson, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak
Part II Transnationalism and race
4 Journeying to death: Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic
5 Black Atlantic nationalism: Sol Plaatje and W.E.B. Du Bois
6 Transnational productions of Englishness: South Africa in the post-imperial metropole
Part III Postcolonial theoretical politics
7 Theorising race, racism and culture: David Lloyd's work
8 Robert Young and the ironic authority of postcolonial criticism
9 Cultural studies in the new South Africa
10 'The Killer That Doesn't Pay Back': Chinua Achebe's critique of cosmopolitics
11 You can get there from here: critique and utopia in Benita Parry's thought -- .
