Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231100213 ISBN 13: 9780231100212

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 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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About the Author

Patrick Williams is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature and Languages at Nottingham Trent University. Laura Chrisman is a Lecturer in English in the School of African and Asian Studies at the University of Sussex.

Edition details

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231100213
• ISBN 13: 9780231100212
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 570
• Editor: Williams Patrick, Chrisman Laura