| Description |
x, 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. After colonialism. The colonial aftermath -- Postcolonial re-membering -- Gandhi and Fanon: the slave's recovery -- 2. Thinking otherwise: a brief intellectual history. Marxism, poststructuralism and the problem of humanism -- What is Enlightenment? -- Descartes' error -- Nietzsche's genealogy -- 3. Postcolonialism and the new humanities. Provincialising Europe -- Power, knowledge and the humanities -- Oppositional criticism and the new humanities -- The world and the book -- The postcolonial intellectual -- 4. Edward Said and his critics. Enter Orientalism -- The Said phenomenon -- Rethinking colonial discourse -- 5. Postcolonialism and feminism. Imperialist feminisms: woman (in)difference -- Gendered subalterns: the (Other) woman in the attic -- Conflicting loyalties: brothers v. sisters -- Between men: rethinking the colonial encounter -- 6. Imagining community: the question of nationalism. Good and bad nationalisms -- Midnight's children: the politics of nationhood -- A derivative discourse? -- 7. One world: the vision of postnationalism. Globalisation, hybridity, diaspora -- Mutual transformations -- Postnational utopias: toward an ethics of hybridity -- 8. Postcolonial literatures. Textual politics -- Postcolonial texts, anti-colonial politics -- 9. The limits of postcolonial theory. The meta-narrative of colonialism -- The end of colonialism. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188) and index. |
| Subject |
Postcolonialism.
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| ISBN |
0231112726 alkaline paper |
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0231112734 paperback alkaline paper |
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