03701nam 2200745Ia 450 991080989900332120200520144314.01-134-84605-31-280-32577-11-134-84606-10-585-45162-110.4324/9780203203682 (CKB)111087026820096(EBL)178073(OCoLC)62593908(SSID)ssj0000137043(PQKBManifestationID)11144677(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000137043(PQKBWorkID)10084917(PQKB)10217046(SSID)ssj0000070996(PQKBManifestationID)11109989(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000070996(PQKBWorkID)10089426(PQKB)10458252(MiAaPQ)EBC178073(Au-PeEL)EBL178073(CaPaEBR)ebr10058245(CaONFJC)MIL32577(OCoLC)52568459(EXLCZ)9911108702682009619931110d1994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDe-scribing empire post-colonialism and textuality /edited by Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson1st ed.London ;New York Routledge19941 online resource (267 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-10546-3 0-415-10547-1 0-203-20368-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-249) and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION The textuality of Empire; THE SCRAMBLE FOR POST-COLONIALISM; EXCESS Post-colonialism and the verandahs of meaning; SOME PROBLEMS OF RESPONSE TO EMPIRE IN SETTLER POST-COLONIAL SOCIETIES; THEORIZING RACISM; THE MYTH OF AUTHENTICITY Representation, discourse and social practice; BREYTEN BREYTENBACH AND THE CENSOR; DE-SCRIBING ORALITY Performance and the recuperation of voice; INSCRIBING THE EMPTINESS Cartography, exploration and the construction of AustraliaTHE UNFINISHED COMMONWEALTH Boundaries of civility in popular Australian fiction of the first Commonwealth decade'THE SOFTEST DISORDER' Representing cultural indeterminacy; 'THE ONLY FREE PEOPLE IN THE EMPIRE' Gender difference in colonial discourse; DE-SCRIBING THE WATER-BABIES 'The child' in post-colonial theory; MODERNITY, VOICE, AND WINDOW-BREAKING Jean Rhys's 'Let them call it jazz'; SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE London, Cambridge and the Caribbean; THE SPEAKING ABJECT The impossible possible world of realized Empire; CONCLUSION Reading difference; Bibliography; IndexDe-Scribing Empire is a stunning collection of first-class essays. Collectively they examine the formative role of books, writing and textuality in imperial control and the fashioning of colonial world-views. The volume as a whole puts forward strategies for understanding and neutralising that control, and as such is a major contribution to the field. It will be invaluable for students in post-colonialist criticism.Politics and literatureImperialism in literatureLiterature and societyPolitics and literature.Imperialism in literature.Literature and society.808Tiffin Chris167413Lawson Alan163673MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809899003321De-scribing empire4004784UNINA