De-scribing empire : post-colonialism and textuality / / edited by Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Disciplina: 808
• Soggetto topico: Politics and literature; Imperialism in literature; Literature and society
• Altri autori: TiffinChris LawsonAlan
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-249) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Australia ; THE 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: De-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.
• Titolo autorizzato: De-scribing empire
• ISBN: 1-134-84605-3; 1-280-32577-1; 1-134-84606-1; 0-585-45162-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809899003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II