Postcolonial Contraventions : Cultural Readings of Race, Imperalism and Transnationalism

Postcolonial Contraventions : Cultural Readings of Race, Imperalism and Transnationalism

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 200 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780719058271
  • DDC分類 306.2

基本説明

Joins a growing chorus of materialist voices within postcolonial studies, and addresses an urgent need for greater attention to the political, historical and socio-economic elements of cultural production.

Full Description


Laura Chrisman's "Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theorywas published in 1993. It became a landmark of postcolonial studies. This new text offers insights into the field she helped establish. Both polemical and scholarly, "Postcolonial contraventions" is challenging in its analysis of black Atlantic studies, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory. Chrisman provides important paradigms for understanding imperial literature, Englishness, and black transnationalism. Her concerns range from the metropolitan centre of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", to fatherhood in Du Bois's "The Souls of Black Folk"; from the marketing of South African literature to cosmopolitanism in Chinua Achebe; from utopian discourse in Benita Parry to Frederic Jameson's theorization of empire. Chrisman also engages critically with postcolonial intellectuals Paul Gilroy, David Lloyd, Anne McClintock, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak and Robert Young, uncovering conservatism from unexpected quarters.The book joins a growing chorus of materialist voices within postcolonial studies, and addresses an urgent need for greater attention to the political, historical and socio-economic elements of cultural production. This book should be of interest to students, researchers and teachers of postcolonial studies, theory and literature; black diaspora and Atlantic studies; imperialism and Victorian literature of empire, and British literature of the 19th century.

Contents

Part One Imperialism"Heart of Darkness"; gendering imperialism - Anne McClintock and H. Rider Haggard; empire's culture in Frederic Jameson, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak. Part Two Transnationalism and race: journeying jnto death - Paul Gilroy's "Black Atlantic"; black Atlantic nationalism - Sol Plaatje and W.E.B. Du Bois; transnational productions of Englishness - South Africa in the postimperial metropole. Part Three Postcolonial theoretical politics: theorizing race, racism and culture - the work of David Lloyd; Robert Young and the ironic authority of postcolonial criticism; cultural studies in the new South Africa; "The Killer That Doesn't Pay Back" - Chinua Achebe's critique of cosmopolitics; You can get there from here - critique and affirmation in Benita Parry's thought.