LEADER 03304nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910458187203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-29826-3 010 $a9786611298265 010 $a1-84714-114-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000400761 035 $a(EBL)436202 035 $a(OCoLC)568445873 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000214650 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11184884 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000214650 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10167421 035 $a(PQKB)11250219 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC436202 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL436202 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10224664 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL129826 035 $a(OCoLC)893333996 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000400761 100 $a20001025d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOn post-colonial futures$b[electronic resource] $etransformations of colonial culture /$fBill Ashcroft 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cContinuum$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (177 p.) 225 1 $aWriting past colonialism 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-5225-6 311 $a0-8264-5226-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [159]-166) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aCHAPTER NINE: A prophetic vision of the past: history and allegory in Peter Carey's Oscar and LucindaCHAPTER TEN: Irony, allegory and empire: J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and In the Heart of the Country; References; Index 330 $aIn this groundbreaking work, Bill Ashcroft extends the arguments posed in The Empire Writes Back to investigate the transformative effects of postcolonial resistance and the continuing relevance of colonial struggle. He demonstrates the remarkable capacity for change and adaptation emanating from postcolonial cultures both in everyday life and in the intellectual spheres of literature, history and philosophy. The transformations of postcolonial literary study have not been limited to a simple rewriting of the canon but have also affected the ways in which all literature can be read and have le 410 0$aWriting past colonialism series. 606 $aPostcolonialism 606 $aDecolonization 606 $aSocial change 606 $aPolitics and culture 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPostcolonialism. 615 0$aDecolonization. 615 0$aSocial change. 615 0$aPolitics and culture. 676 $a325/.3 700 $aAshcroft$b Bill$f1946-$0175073 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458187203321 996 $aOn post-colonial futures$92094778 997 $aUNINA