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Autore |
Chrisman Laura |
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Titolo |
Postcolonial contraventions : cultural readings of race, imperialism, and transnationalism / / Laura Chrisman |
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Manchester University Press, 2003 |
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Manchester, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018, 2003 |
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©2003 |
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1-78170-013-3 |
1-280-73396-9 |
9786610733965 |
1-84779-019-4 |
1-4175-9022-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) : digital file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Colonies |
Decolonization |
Postcolonialism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction --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 --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 --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 --Bibliography --Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Both polemical and scholarly, this text is challenging in its analysis of black Atlantic studies, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial |
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theory. Chrisman provides important paradigms for understanding imperial literature, Englishness, and black transnationalism. |
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