Postcolonial studies : a materialist critique / / Benita Parry
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| Autore: |
Parry Benita
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| Titolo: |
Postcolonial studies : a materialist critique / / Benita Parry
|
| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 9781134307401 |
| 1134307403 | |
| 9781134307418 | |
| 1134307411 | |
| 9780415335997 | |
| 041533599X | |
| 9781280026157 | |
| 1280026154 | |
| 9780203420539 | |
| 0203420535 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910966337603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Postcolonial literatures.