1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996392492703316

Autore

P. C

Titolo

A proposal humbly offer'd to the consideration of the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, for raising a farther supply towards the erecting and maintenance of the intended college or hospital at Greenwich [[electronic resource] ] : for ancient and maimed mariners and seamen; or such other good and publick use, as the honourable House shall think fit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London, : s.n., 1694?]

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet ([2] p.)

Soggetti

Sailors - English - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Caption title.

Imprint from Wing CD-ROM, 1996.

Signed at end: P.C. and D., and G.B in MS.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784775503321

Autore

Ashcroft Bill <1946->

Titolo

On post-colonial futures : transformations of colonial culture / / Bill Ashcroft

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2001

ISBN

1-281-29826-3

9786611298265

1-84714-114-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 pages)

Collana

Writing past colonialism

Disciplina

325/.3

Soggetti

Postcolonialism

Decolonization

Social change

Politics and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-166) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Lucinda; CHAPTER TEN: Irony, allegory and empire: J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and In the Heart of the Country; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 life and in the intellectual spheres of literature, history and philosophy.



The transformations of postcolonial literary study have not been limited to a simple rewriting of the canon but have also affected the ways in which all literature can be read and have le

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910257345103321

Titolo

Contemporary Japan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Berlin], : De Gruyter

Abingdon, UK, : Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1869-2737

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

952/.005

Soggetti

Education

Periodical

periodicals.

Periodicals.

Périodiques.

Japan Periodicals

Japan Study and teaching Germany Periodicals

Germany

Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

"Journal of the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo."