| Description |
xvii, 526 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-513) and index. |
| Summary |
"One of the most exciting features of English literatures today is the explosion of post-colonial literatures, those literatures written in English in formerly colonised societies. This field has given rise to a great range of theoretical ideas, concepts, problems and debates, and these have been addressed in a great range of articles, essays, talks and books published or written from every continent. This book brings together a selection of these theoretical issues in a way that indicates and celebrates the immense diversity of post-colonial theory. As such it will be an indispensable volume for students, teachers, researchers and theorists, and anybody interested in the field." "The uniqueness of this volume is in its range and comprehensiveness. By bringing together nearly ninety extracts from over fifty different writers, it demonstrates the vast spread of post-colonial theory, the degree to which such theory is emerging outside the metropolitan intellectual centres, and the significance such theory has in the practical political issues of living in this range of societies. This book makes accessible the full range of post-colonial theory, which otherwise would be either difficult or impossible for students, teachers or researchers to fully utilize."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Contents |
The occasion for speaking / George Lamming -- The economy of Manichean allegory / Abdul R. JanMohamed -- Can the subaltern speak? / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Signs taken for wonders / Homi K. Bhabha -- Problems in current theories of colonial discourse / Benita Parry -- The scramble for post-colonialsm / Stephen Slemon -- Colonialist criticism / Chinua Achebe -- Heroic ethnocentrism : the idea of universality in literature / Charles Larson -- Entering our own ignorance : subject-object relations in commonwealth literature / Flemming Brahms -- Western mathematics : the secret weapon of cultural imperialsim / Alan J. Bishop -- Jameson's rhetoric of otherness and the "National allegory" / Aijaz Ahmad -- Orientalism / Edward W. Said -- A small place / Jamaica Kincaid -- Post-colonial literatures and counter-discourse / Helen Tiffin -- Figures of colonial resistance / Jenny Sharpe -- Unsettling the empire : resistance theory for the second world / Stephen Slemon -- The rhetoric of English India / Sara Suleri -- The postcolonial and the postmodern / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Postmodernism or post-colonialism today / Simon During -- Circling the downspout of empire / Linda Hutcheon |
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The white Inuit speaks : contamination as literary strategy / Diane Brydon -- The politics of the possible / Kumkum Sangari -- National culture / Frantz Fanon -- Fanon, Cabral and Ngugi on national liberation / Chidi Amuta -- Nationalism as a problem / Partha Chatterjee -- The discovery of nationality in Australian and Canadian literatures / Alan Lawson -- The national longing for form / Timothy Brennan -- Dissemination : time, narrative, and the margins of the modern nation / Homi K. Bhabha -- What is my nation? / David Cairns and Shaun Richards -- Fossil and psyche / Kirsten Holst Petersen and Anna Rutherford -- Named for Victoria, Queen of England / Chinua Achebe -- Of the marvellous realism of the Haitians / Jacques Stephen Aléxis -- Marvellous realism : the way out of négrigtude / Michael Dash -- Creolization in Jamaica / Edward Kamau Brathwaite -- Cultural diversity and cultural differences / Homi K. Bhabha -- No master territories / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Who is ethnic? -- Werner-Sollors -- New ethnicities / Stuart Hall -- White forms, aboriginal content / Mudrooroo -- The representation of the indigene / Terry Goldie -- The myth of authenticity / Gareth Griffiths -- Who can write as other? / Margery Fee |
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First things first : problems of a feminist approach to African literature / Kirsten Holst Petersen -- Decolonizing culture : toward a theory for Post-colonial women's texts / Ketu H. Katrak -- Under Western eyes : feminist scholarship and colonial discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- Writing postcoloniality and feminism / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Three women's texts and a critique of imperialism / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Woman skin deep : feminism and the postcolonial condition / Sara Suleri -- The language of African literature / Ngugi wa Thiongó -- The alchemy of English / Braj B. Kachru -- Language and spirit / Raja Rao -- Constitutive graphonomy / Bill Ashcroft -- New language, new world / W.H. New -- Nation language / Edward Kamau Brathwaite -- Relexification / Chantal Zabus -- The fact of blackness / Frantz Fanon -- Jazz and the West Indian novel / Edward Kamau Brathwaite -- In search of the lost body : redefining the subject in Caribbean literature / Michael Dash -- The body as cultural signifier / Russell McDougall -- Dance, movement and resistance politics / Helen Gilbert -- Feminism and the colonial body / Kadiatu Kanneh -- Outlaws of the text / Gillian Whitlock -- Allegories of Atlas / José Rabasa -- Columbus and the cannibals / Peter Hulme -- The muse of history / Derek Walcott -- Spatial history / Paul Carter -- The limbo gateway / Wilson Harris |
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Postcoloniality and the artifice of history / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Unhiding the hidden / Robert Kroetsch -- Writing in colonial space / Dennis Lee -- Naming place / Paul Carter -- Decolonizing the map / Graham Huggan -- Aboriginal place / Bob Hodge and Vijay Mishra -- Ecological imperialism / Alfred W. Crosby -- Minute on Indian education / Thomas Macaulay -- The beginnings of English literary study in British India / Gauri Viswanathan -- On the abolition of the English department / Ngugi wa Thiongó -- The neocolonial assumption in university teaching of English / John Docker -- Ideology in the classroom : a case study in the teaching of English literature in Canadian universities / Arun P. Mukherjee -- Education and neocolonialism / Philip G. Altbach -- The race for theory / Barbara Christian -- The historiography of African literature written in English / André Lefevere -- Singapore : poet, critic, audience / Peter Hyland -- Postcolonial culture, postimperial criticism / W.J.T. Mitchell -- The book today in Africa / S.I.A. Kotei -- Literary colonialism : books in the Third World / Philip G. Altbach. |
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Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Developing countries -- History and criticism.
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Postcolonialism -- Commonwealth countries.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Decolonization in literature.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Colonies in literature.
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| Indexed Term |
English literature |
| Added Author |
Ashcroft, Bill, 1946-
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Griffiths, Gareth, 1943-
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Tiffin, Helen.
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| ISBN |
0415096219 hardback |
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9780415096218 hardback |
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0415096227 paperback |
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9780415096225 paperback |
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