Postcolonial Contraventions: Cultural Readings of Race, Imperialism, and TransnationalismLaura Chrisman's Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader, was 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. |
Contents
Acknowledgements page | 1 |
the imperial metropolis | 21 |
Anne McClintock | 39 |
Empires culture in Fredric Jameson Edward Said | 51 |
Paul Gilroys The Black Atlantic | 73 |
Sol Plaatje | 89 |
Robert Young and the ironic authority of postcolonial | 138 |
Cultural studies in the new South Africa | 145 |
Chinua Achebes | 157 |
critique and utopia | 164 |
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Post-colonial Studies: The Key Concepts Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin No preview available - 2007 |
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