Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Young, Robert J. C.

ISBN 10: 0198856830 / ISBN 13: 9780198856832

Published by Oxford University Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198856830
• ISBN 13: 9780198856832
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both the history and key debates of postcolonialism, and considers its importance as a means of changing the way we think about the world.

Robert J. C. Young examines the key strategies that postcolonial thought has developed to engage with the impact of sometimes centuries of western political and cultural domination. Situating the discussion in a wide cultural and geographical context, he draws on examples such as the status of indigenous peoples, of those dispossessed from their land, Algerian rai music, and global social and ecological movements. In this new edition he also includes updated material on race, slavery, and postcolonial gender politics. Above all, Young argues that postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, which in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past and enables us to decolonize our own lives in the present.

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About the Author

Robert J. C. Young is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. He writes in the fields of cultural and political history, literature, literary theory and philosophy, photography, psychoanalysis, and translation studies, with a particular focus on colonial history and postcolonial theory. His most recent book is an edition of uncollected and unpublished work by Frantz Fanon, Écrits sur l'aliénation et la liberté (Paris: La Découverte, 2016; English translation, Alienation and Freedom, London: Bloomsbury, 2018).