Postcolonial contraventions : cultural readings of race, imperialism and transnationalism
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Postcolonial contraventions : cultural readings of race, imperialism and transnationalism
Manchester University Press , Distributed by Palgrave, 2003
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- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-194) and index
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Description
This book analyses black Atlantic studies, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory, providing paradigms for understanding imperial literature, Englishness and black transnationalism. Its 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 Achebe; and from utopian discourse in Parry to Jameson's theorisation of empire. -- .
Table of Contents
- Part One Imperialism: tale of the city - the imperial metropolis of "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.
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