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Record Nr.

UNINA9910952258603321

Autore

Venn Couze

Titolo

The postcolonial challenge : towards alternative worlds / / Couze Venn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, CA, : SAGE, 2006

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, CA : , : SAGE, , 2006

ISBN

9786611798246

9781446238431

1446238431

9781848605572

1848605579

9781281798244

128179824X

9780761971627

0761971629

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource ([viii], 219 pages)

Collana

Theory, culture & society

Disciplina

325.301

Soggetti

Postcolonialism

Colonization - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 - Rethinking the Scope of the Postcolonial: Poscoloniality and the 'new world order'; Chapter 2 - Modernity, Modernization and the Postcolonial Present; Chapter 3 - Questions of Identity and Agency; Chapter 4 - Towards a Postcolonial Political Economy; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume maps the territory of postcolonial studies, and demonstrates how identity and postcolonialism relate. It also introduces new perspectives in the light of recent geo-political events, and provides a guide to future developments in the subject.