The post-colonial studies reader

✍ Scribed by Griffiths, Gareth; Tiffin, Helen; Ashcroft, Bill

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 545
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Content: General Introduction --
Introduction --
The Occasion for Speaking --
The Economy of Manichean Allegory --
Can the Subaltern Speak? --
Signs Taken for Wonders --
Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse --
The Scramble for Post-colonialism --
Introduction --
Colonialist Criticism --
Heroic Ethnocentrism: The Idea of Universality in Literature --
Entering Our Own Ignorance: Subject-Object Relations in Commonwealth Literature --
Western Mathematics: The Secret Weapon of Cultural Imperialism --
Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the 'National Allegory' --
Introduction --
Orientalism --
Entering Our Own Ignorance: Subject-Object Relations in Commonwealth Literature --
Western Mathematics: The Secret Weapon of Cultural Imperialism --
Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the 'National Allegory' --
Introduction --
Orientalism --
A Small Place --
Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse --
Figures of Colonial Resistance --
Unsettling the Empire: Resistance Theory for the Second World --
The Rhetoric of English India --
Introduction --
The Postcolonial and the Postmodern --
Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today --
Circling the Downspout of Empire --
The White Inuit Speaks: Contamination as Literary Strategy --
The Politics of the Possible --
Introduction --
National Culture --
Fanon, Cabral and Ngugi on National Liberation.

✦ Subjects

Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism. English literature -- Developing countries -- History and criticism. Decolonization in literature. Imperialism in literature. Colonies in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Postkolonialisme. Letterkunde. Literatuurwetenschap.

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