Postcolonial Contraventions.
Laura Chrisman's Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader was published in 1993. It quickly became a landmark of postcolonial studies. This timely new book offers insights into the field she helped establish. Both polemical and scholarly, Postcolonial contraventions is challenging i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Manchester : : Manchester University Press,, 2003. ©2003. |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Imperialism
- 1 Tale of the city
- 2 Gendering imperialism
- 3 Empire's culture in Fredric Jameson, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak
- Part II Transnationalism and race
- 4 Journeying to death
- 5 Black Atlantic nationalism
- 6 Transnational productions of Englishness
- Part III Postcolonial theoretical politics
- 7 Theorising race, racism and culture
- 8 Robert Young and the ironic authority of postcolonial criticism
- 9 Cultural studies in the new South Africa
- 10 'The Killer That Doesn't Pay Back'
- 11 You can get there from here
- Bibliography
- Index