Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory
Author(s): Francis Barker
The issues of colonialism and imperialism have recently come to the forefront of thinking in the humanities. Disciplines such as history, literature and anthropology are taking stock of their extensive and usually unacknowledged legacy of Empire. At the same time, contemporary cultural theory has had to respond to post-colonial pressure, with its different registers and agendas. This volume ranges, geographically, from Brazil to India and South Africa, from the Andes to the Caribbean and the USA. This range is matched by a breadth of historical perspectives. Central to the whole volume is a critique of the very idea of the "postcolonial" itself. Contributors include Annie Coombes, Simon During, Peter Hulme, Neil Lazarus, David Lloyd, Anne McClintock, Zita Nunes, Benita Parry, Graham Pechey, Mary Louise Pratt, Renato Rosaldo and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Product Information
Francis Barker is a Reader and Peter Hulme is a Professor in the Department of Literature, and Margaret Iversen is a Lecturer in the Department of Art History, all at the University of Essex
Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Transculturation and autoethnography: Peru 1615/1980 Mary Louise Pratt Chapter 2 Rousseau's patrimony: primitivism, romance and becoming other Simon During Chapter 3 The locked heart: the creole family romance of Wide Sargasso Sea Peter Hulme Chapter 4 The recalcitrant object: culture contact and the question of hybritidy Annie E. Coombes Chapter 5 Anthropology and race in Brazilian modernism Zita Nunes Chapter 6 How to read a 'culturally different' book Gayatri Spivak Chapter 7 Post-apartheid narratives Graham Pechey Chapter 8 Resistance theory/theorising resistance, or two cheers for nativism Benita Parry Chapter 9 National consicousness and the specificity of (post) colonial intellectualism Neil Lazarus Chapter 10 Ethnic cultures, minority discourse and the state David Lloyd Chapter 11 Social justice and the crisis of national communities Renato Rosaldo Chapter 12 The angel of progress: pitfalls of the term 'postcolonialism' Anne McClintock References Notes on contributors Index
General Fields
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- : Manchester University Press
- : Manchester University Press
- : 0.424
- : June 1996
- : 234mm X 156mm X 15mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Francis Barker
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 809.93358
- : 296
- : black & white illustrations