Post-Colonial Transformation
- ISBN-10
- 1134556950
- ISBN-13
- 9781134556953
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-04-03
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Bill Ashcroft
Description
In his new book, Bill Ashcroft gives us a revolutionary view of the ways in which post-colonial societies have responded to colonial control. The most comprehensive analysis of major features of post-colonial studies ever compiled, Post-Colonial Transformation: * demonstrates how widespread the strategy of transformation has been * investigates political and literary resistance * examines the nature of post-colonial societies' engagement with imperial language, history, allegory, and place * offers radical new perspectives in post-colonial theory in principles of habitation and horizonality. Post-Colonial Transformation breaks new theoretical ground while demonstrating the relevance of a wide range of theoretical practices, and extending the exploration of topics fundamentally important to the field of post-colonial studies.
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