Format:
1 online resource (248 pages)
ISBN:
9780230344075
Series Statement:
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Content:
Postcolonial theory is a prominent approach in English Studies today. This introductory guide presents both the theory and practice to students in accessible and attractive ways. It includes contextualised discussion of a range of influential theorists, and applies postcolonial theory to a variety of key literary texts
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Cover -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline of Key Events and Texts -- Introduction: The Colonial Exotic -- Case study: the exotic -- Colonial representation and literature -- Global consumption: Zingolo -- Part I: The Emergence of Postcolonial Thinking -- 1 Anticolonial Resistance -- Barbados, sugar, and the 1816 slave uprising -- Anticolonial responses: Toussaint L'Ouverture -- Aimé Césaire -- The Communist Party and anticolonialism: C. L. R. James -- Claudia Jones -- Feminism and anticolonialism: Claudia Jones -- Una Marson -- Algerian resistance -- Literary responses: Chinua Achebe -- George Lamming -- Édouard Glissant -- Aimé Césaire -- In theory: Frantz Fanon -- Albert Memmi -- Aboriginal responses -- Affective communities -- 2 The Postcolonial Moment -- The post(-)colonial -- 'A borrowed place on borrowed time': Hong Kong -- Queer Hong Kong -- The Partition of India -- Partition in literature -- Partition memories -- Partition histories -- Part II: Postcolonial Theories -- 3 Otherness -- Defining the other -- Orientalism and othering -- The nation and the novel -- Saïd's other -- Trinh T. Minh-ha's dissatisfaction with the 'other' -- Trinh and film -- Rey Chow, language and the other -- 4 The Postcolonial Migrant -- The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis -- Fanon on language -- Fanon's migrations -- Fanon and psychopathology -- Bhabha and hybridity -- Questions of cultural theory -- Gilroy's conviviality -- Gilroy and music -- 5 Native and Nation -- Ngugi and English in Africa -- Indigenous concerns: a different kind of nativism? -- Mudrooroo -- Textuality and orality -- The native informant -- Spivak's concept of the subaltern -- God Dies by the Nile -- The White Tiger -- Part III: Reading Postcolonial Literature -- Introduction to Part III -- 6 The Text in the Colony -- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart -- Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions -- 7 The Postcolonial Counter-Text -- William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Aimé Césaire's A Tempest -- Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea -- Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs -- 8 The Diaspora Text -- Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy -- Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses -- Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother -- Part IV: Postcolonial Futures -- 9 Afterword: Postcolonial Futures -- Postcolonial ecocriticism -- Global and local voices -- Digital postcolonialism -- Postcolonial queer -- Postcolonial prize books and bestsellers -- Annotated Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780230243033
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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English Studies
Keywords:
Postkoloniale Literatur
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Literaturtheorie
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