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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457338703321

Autore

Ashcroft Bill

Titolo

Post-Colonial Studies Reader [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 1994

ISBN

0-203-42306-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (545 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GriffithsGareth

TiffinHelen

Disciplina

820.9358

Soggetti

Colonies in literature

Commonwealth literature (English)

Commonwealth literature (English) - History and cr

Decolonization in literature

English literature

History and criticism

Imperialism in literature

Literature

Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism - Developing countries

English literature - History and criticism - Commonwealth countries

Postcolonialism

Postcolonialism in literature

English Literature

English

Languages & Literatures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; General Introduction; Introduction; The Occasion for Speaking; The Economy of Manichean Allegory; Can the Subaltern Speak?; Signs Taken for Wonders; Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse; The Scramble for Post-colonialism; Introduction;



Colonialist Criticism; Heroic Ethnocentrism: The Idea of Universality in Literature; Entering Our Own Ignorance: Subject-Object Relations in Commonwealth Literature; Western Mathematics: The Secret Weapon of Cultural Imperialism

Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the 'National Allegory'Introduction; Orientalism; A Small Place; Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse; Figures of Colonial Resistance; Unsettling the Empire: Resistance Theory for the Second World; The Rhetoric of English India; Introduction; The Postcolonial and the Postmodern; Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today; Circling the Downspout of Empire; The White Inuit Speaks: Contamination as Literary Strategy; The Poli

Sommario/riassunto

The most comprehensive selection of key texts in post-colonial theory and criticism yet compiled. This collection covers a huge range of topics and issues and features nearly ninety of the most widely read pieces of writing.