Loading...
Colonial discourse: postcolonial theory/
Recently, the issues of colonialism and imperialism have, for the first time, come to the forefront of thinking in the humanities. This volume examines relevant issues from a range of historical perspectives. Central to the whole volume is a critique of the idea of the "post-colonial" itse...
| Other Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New Delhi:
Viva books,
2012.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 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.