(Un)writing empire. / / Theo D'haen.
The contributors to the present volume, in espousing and extending the programme of such writers as Edward Said, Benedict Anderson, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak, lay bare the genealogy of 'writing' empire (thereby, in a sense, ' un -writing' it). One focus is the Caribbean: th...
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| Superior document: | Cross/Cultures ; 30 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1998] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/Cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Theo Dhaen
- (Un)Writing Empire / Theo Dhaen
- The Overwritten Unwritten: Nationalism and its Doubles in Post-Colonial Theory / Robert J.C. Young
- The Caribbean / Theo Dhaen
- Crolit: Cultural Nation-Building or Cultural Dependence? / A. James Arnold
- (Un)Ending Colonialism: Post-Colonial Identities and Postmodern Ambivalence in Edouard Glissants Mahagony / Chris Bongie
- Pre-Text and Con-Text: Re-writing the Caribbean / John Thieme
- On the (False) Idea of Exile: Derek Walcott and Grace Nichols / Aleid Fokkema
- Asia / Theo Dhaen
- Starry Nights: The Novels of Shobha D / Rachel Dwyer
- Un-writing with the Voice: Orality as a Post-Colonial Literary Apparatus in Malaysian Literature / Muhammad Haji Salleh
- H.J. Friedericy and the Indonesian Voice / Peter Van Zonneveld
- (De)Romanticizing the Land: Culture and Cultivation in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature of the Dutch East Indies / Christine Levecq
- Africa / Theo DHaen
- Gordimer contre Hemingway: Crossing Back through the Mirror that Subtends All Speculation / Kenneth W. Harrow
- The Yoruba Bacchae: Wole Soyinkas Dearyanization of Greek Civilization / Chantal Zabus
- Gides Africa/Africas Gide / Ieme Van Der Poel
- Language, Identity, and Writing in Francophone Maghreb Literature / Abdellah Bounfour
- America / Theo DHaen
- Herman Melville and the Mission of American Empire / Johanna C. Kardux
- Un-writing Empire by Writing Oral Tradition: Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony / John Peacock
- Timothy Findleys Headhunter: Empire, and Canadian Modernity / Theo DHaen.