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Autore |
Ashcroft Bill <1946-> |
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Titolo |
On post-colonial futures [[electronic resource] ] : transformations of colonial culture / / Bill Ashcroft |
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London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2001 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-29826-3 |
9786611298265 |
1-84714-114-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (177 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Postcolonialism |
Decolonization |
Social change |
Politics and culture |
Electronic books. |
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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 (p. [159]-166) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: The future of English; CHAPTER TWO: Latin America and post-colonial transformation; CHAPTER THREE: 'Primitive and wingless': the colonial subject as child; CHAPTER FOUR: Childhood and possibility: David Malouf's An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon; CHAPTER FIVE: Sweet futures: sugar and colonialism; CHAPTER SIX: Caliban's language; CHAPTER SEVEN: Fractured paradigms: the fragility of discourse; CHAPTER EIGHT: Post-colonial excess and colonial transformation |
CHAPTER NINE: A prophetic vision of the past: history and allegory in Peter Carey's Oscar and LucindaCHAPTER TEN: Irony, allegory and empire: J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and In the Heart of the Country; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this groundbreaking work, Bill Ashcroft extends the arguments posed in The Empire Writes Back to investigate the transformative effects of postcolonial resistance and the continuing relevance of colonial struggle. He demonstrates the remarkable capacity for change and adaptation emanating from postcolonial cultures both in everyday |
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