Colonial Discourse, Postcolonial Theory

Colonial Discourse, Postcolonial Theory
ISBN-10
0719039797
ISBN-13
9780719039799
Category
Literary Criticism / General
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
1994
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Authors
Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen

Description

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. -- Amazon.com.

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