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Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas - Hardcover

Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

 
9780333915301: Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0333915305 ISBN 13: 9780333915301
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Synopsis

Through close readings of works by writers like C. L. R. James, Salman Rushdie, Ama Ata Aidoo, Michelle Cliff, and Hanif Kureishi, Using the Master's Tools examines instances of textual resistance elaborated within imperial/metropolitan epistemologies and ideologies. In her analysis, Anuradha Needham focuses especially on each writer's historical location, personal and political affiliations, presumed audiences, and position on gender as integral contextual determinants of the strategies of textual resistance each deploys. Drawing on the extensive scholarship on "subaltern" and anti-colonial resistances in a number of disciplines, this book demonstrates the mutual interactions of (general) theory with (specific) practice such that each is enriched, extended, and refurbished.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0333915305
ISBN 13 
9780333915301
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
192