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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783834503321

Autore

Parry Benita

Titolo

Postcolonial studies : a materialist critique / / Benita Parry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-30740-3

1-134-30741-1

0-415-33599-X

1-280-02615-4

0-203-42053-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Postcolonial literatures

Disciplina

809.891724

820.9/9171241

Soggetti

Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism - Theory, etc

English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Decolonization - Great Britain - Colonies

Postcolonialism - Commonwealth countries

Postcolonialism in literature

Decolonization in literature

Materialism in literature

Imperialism in literature

Colonies in literature

Great Britain Colonies In literature

Commonwealth countries In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-230) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Beginnings, affiliations, disavowals; Problems in current theories of colonial discourse; Resistance theory/theorizing resistance or two cheers for nativism; Signs of the Times; Liberation theory: variations on themes of Marxism and modernity; Internationalism revisited or in praise of internationalism; Reading the signs of empire in metropolitan fiction; The content and discontents of Kipling's imperialism; Narrating



imperialism: beyond Conrad's dystopias; Tono-Bungay: the failed electrification of the empire of light

Materiality and Mystification in A Passage to IndiaReconciliation and remembrance; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Parry offers the compelling argument that theoretical work must strive to join remembrance of the material past with a critique of the contemporary condition, remaining unreconciled to the past and unconsoled by the present.