Late Imperial Culture (Haymarket) - Softcover

De La Campa, Roman; Kaplan, E. Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1859840507 ISBN 13: 9781859840504

Publisher: Verso Books, 1995

Synopsis

Spanning time and space from late Victorian Britain and Ireland to postwar America and Latin America, Late Imperial Culture maps crucial regions in the terrain of imperial cultural practices including theatre, film, photography, fiction, autobiography and body art. The forms reviewed in this lively collection range from those which accept and reproduce empire's dominant self-images to scathing critiques of the oppressions that colonialism has visited upon its subjects and the price it continues to exact from them. A diverse range of theoretically sophisticated and historically informed contributors take as given two fundamental facts about the culture of imperialism: firstly, that it has a long and complex history which, in the present epoch, merits its being designated 'late'; and, secondly, that its impact on the contemporary world is far from exhausted. Together they highlight the contradictions in the serried cultural practices of imperialism in its different historical periods. Contributors: Aijaz Ahmad, Steven Cagan, Roman de la Campa, David Glover, May Joseph, Caren Kaplan, Rob Nixon, Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, and Marianna Torgovnick.

About this title

Product Description:

Late Imperial Culture A work of criticism on the cultures of imperialism. Fundamental to the editors' conceptualization is the premise that while colonialism may be a thing of the past for the majority of the world's people, its legacies in political, economic and ideological structures continue to shape the world. Full description

Review:

"A timely reevaluation of issues in postcolonial criticism."--Arif Dirlik, Department of History, Duke University

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1859840507
• ISBN 13: 9781859840504
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236
• Editor: Sprinker Michael