Colonial Discourse/ Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231100205 ISBN 13: 9780231100205

Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIV PR, 1994

Synopsis

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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Colonial Discourse/ Post-Colonial Theory Provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The many contributors include Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Edward Said, Anthony Giddens, Anne McClintock, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, and bell hooks. Full description

Synopsis:

A collection of essays which aims to act as an introduction to the debate surrounding postcolonial theory and criticism. Topics discussed include the nature of colonized cultures and anti-colonial resistance, the construction of Western subjectivity and the nature of postcolonial identity.

About this edition

• Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIV PR
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0231100205
• ISBN 13: 9780231100205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Editor: Williams Patrick, Chrisman Laura