| Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism Contributor(s): López, Alfred J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791449947 ISBN-13: 9780791449943 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - Literary Criticism | American - Hispanic American |
| Dewey: 801.950 |
| LCCN: 00046357 |
| Series: Suny Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.86" W x 8.9" (0.79 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism, Alfred J. Lopez argues for a formulation of postcolonial studies which diverges in three significant ways from current academic and institutional practices: 1) the postcolonial as diasporic, constituted by a series of dispersed and irregular criticisms not at all containable within a single set of parameters, whether historical, geographical, or socioeconomic; 2) the postcolonial as a distinct ontological moment in the life of a nation or people, in which it conceives itself as doubly haunted--on the one hand by the memory in advance of a collective national future and on the other by its colonial past; and 3) the postcolonial as a distinct phenomenological moment, a radical break in the history of a relation between lords and bonds-women and -men. Going further than previous studies to address the postcolonial as a diasporic body of texts and discourses, it looks at a remarkable variety of writers--Joseph Conrad, Wilson Harris, Jose Marti, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Michelle Cliff, J. M. Coetzee, Franz Fanon, Gabriel Marcia Marquez, and Salman Rushdie. |