| Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader Contributor(s): Williams, Patrick (Editor), Chrisman, Laura (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0231100213 ISBN-13: 9780231100212 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $45.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1994 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 325.3 |
| LCCN: 93036929 |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.76" W x 9.2" (1.99 lbs) 570 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
