Post-Colonial Studies Reader [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784698003321
• Autore: Ashcroft Bill
• 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
• 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.