Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader - Brossura

Williams, Patrick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0231100213 ISBN 13: 9780231100212

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 1994

Riassunto

Equally suitable for undergraduates and specialists in the humanities, this collection provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The readings are drawn from a diverse selection of Third World and Western thinkers, both historical and contemporary. "Post-colonialism" is taken by the editors to include Third World and diasporic experience; like "colonialism," it is understood to contain a complex set of cultural, ethnographic, political, and economic processes and conflicts.

This volume explores such issues as the nature of colonized cultures and anti-colonial resistance; subaltern historiography; constructions of Western subjectivity, knowledge, and gender; the formation of post-colonial intellectuals; the metropolitan institutionalization of post-colonialism; neo-colonialism; and the nature of minority and post-colonial identity and discourse. One section is devoted to the application of theoretical formulations to cultural criticism, and contains a number of textual analyses. A general introduction to the volume as well as introductions to each section provide historical, theoretical, and poltical contexts for the readings. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography.

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L'autore

Patrick Williams is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature and Languages at Nottingham Trent University. Laura Chrisman is a Lecturer in English in the School of African and Asian Studies at the University of Sussex.

Product Description

This first-of-its-kind collection of both groundbreaking and classic essays drawn from a diverse selection of third world and Western thinkers, both historical and contemporary, provides an in-depth introduction to the debates within postcolonial theory and criticism. For both the specialist and the general reader, this volume includes statements by all the major writers on the topic--including Leopold Senghor, Franz Fanon, Homi Bhaba, Gayatri Spivak, Edward Said, Aime Cesaire, Chandra Mohanty, Sara Suleri, Stuart Hall, Jean Franco, bell hooks, and Chinua Achebe. They explore issues such as the nature of colonized cultures and anticolonial resistance; subaltern historiography; the construction of Western subjectivity and knowledge; gender; the formation of postcolonial intellectuals; the metropolitan institutionalization of postcoloniality; neocolonialism; the nature of minority and postcolonial identity and discourse. One section is devoted to the application of theoretical formulations to cultural criticism, and contains several textual analyses. Through the general introduction, and introductions to each section, the editors provide a historical, theoretical, and political context for the readings. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography and suggestions for future reading.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0231100213
• ISBN 13: 9780231100212
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 582
• Redattore: Chrisman Laura