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Friends and Enemies: The Scribal Politics of Post/Colonial Literature (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines, 3) (Volume 3) - Hardcover
In this timely contribution to debates about the future of postcolonial theory groundbreaking scholar Chris Bongie explores the troubled relationship between postcolonial theory and 'politics', both in the sense of a radical, revolutionary politics associated with anti-colonial struggle, and the almost inevitable implication of literary writers in institutional discourses of power. The book builds directly on Bongie's Islands and Exiles (Stanford UP, 1998), which was described by the eminent Caribbeanist Peter Hulme as a book that "may well be the greatest single contribution yet to expanding the field of postcolonial studies."
Bongie explores the commemoration and commodification of the post/colonial using early nineteenth-century Caribbean texts alongside contemporary works. Taking Haiti as a key example he writes lucidly of the processes by which Haiti's world-historical revolution has been commemorated both in the colonial era and in our own postcolonial age--an age in which it is increasingly difficult to separate the reality of memories of anti-colonial resistance from the processes of commodification through which alone those memories can now be thought.
Never less than stimulating and frequently controversial, Friends and Enemies is likely to provoke new debates among scholars of postcolonial theory, Caribbean studies, francophone literature and culture, and nineteenth century French studies.
Bongie explores the commemoration and commodification of the post/colonial using early nineteenth-century Caribbean texts alongside contemporary works. Taking Haiti as a key example he writes lucidly of the processes by which Haiti's world-historical revolution has been commemorated both in the colonial era and in our own postcolonial age--an age in which it is increasingly difficult to separate the reality of memories of anti-colonial resistance from the processes of commodification through which alone those memories can now be thought.
Never less than stimulating and frequently controversial, Friends and Enemies is likely to provoke new debates among scholars of postcolonial theory, Caribbean studies, francophone literature and culture, and nineteenth century French studies.
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About the Author:
Chris Bongie is Professor and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Previous publications include Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998) and Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de siècle (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1991)
Review:
"Chris Bongie's openly polemical volume is by turns profound in its insights, meticulous in its archival research, startlingly original in the boldness of its theorizing, and extraordinary in the breadth of its references."--Modern Language Review
"Friends and Enemies is well worth diving into for shrewd readings of a splendidly varied corpus and an insightful, comprehensive elucidation of contemporary postcolonial perspectives."--French Studies
"... his valuable contribution, for those unaware of his scholarship, has opened a Pandora's box that will generate stimulating conversations among scholars. Perhaps these discussions will allow new voices to be heard."--New West Indian Guide
Chris Bongie is Professor and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Previous publications include Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998) and Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de siècle (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1991)
"Chris Bongie's openly polemical volume is by turns profound in its insights, meticulous in its archival research, startlingly original in the boldness of its theorizing, and extraordinary in the breadth of its references."--Modern Language Review
"Friends and Enemies is well worth diving into for shrewd readings of a splendidly varied corpus and an insightful, comprehensive elucidation of contemporary postcolonial perspectives."--French Studies
"... his valuable contribution, for those unaware of his scholarship, has opened a Pandora's box that will generate stimulating conversations among scholars. Perhaps these discussions will allow new voices to be heard."--New West Indian Guide
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- PublisherLiverpool University Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1846311438
- ISBN 13 9781846311437
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
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