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Postcolonial studies : a materialist critique / / Benita Parry



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Autore: Parry Benita Visualizza persona
Titolo: Postcolonial studies : a materialist critique / / Benita Parry Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
Disciplina: 809.891724
820.9/9171241
Soggetto topico: Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism - Theory, etc
English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc
Decolonization - Great Britain - Colonies
Postcolonialism - Commonwealth countries
Postcolonialism in literature
Decolonization in literature
Materialism in literature
Imperialism in literature
Colonies in literature
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Colonies In literature
Commonwealth countries In literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-230) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Beginnings, affiliations, disavowals; Problems in current theories of colonial discourse; Resistance theory/theorizing resistance or two cheers for nativism; Signs of the Times; Liberation theory: variations on themes of Marxism and modernity; Internationalism revisited or in praise of internationalism; Reading the signs of empire in metropolitan fiction; The content and discontents of Kipling's imperialism; Narrating imperialism: beyond Conrad's dystopias; Tono-Bungay: the failed electrification of the empire of light
Materiality and Mystification in A Passage to IndiaReconciliation and remembrance; Notes; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Parry offers the compelling argument that theoretical work must strive to join remembrance of the material past with a critique of the contemporary condition, remaining unreconciled to the past and unconsoled by the present.
Titolo autorizzato: Postcolonial studies  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-30741-1
0-415-33599-X
1-280-02615-4
0-203-42053-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450978003321
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Serie: Postcolonial literatures.