Postcolonialism
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Postcolonialism
（Very short introductions, 98）
Oxford University Press, 2003
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Bibliography: p. 149-170
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This innovative and lively book is quite unlike any other introduction to postcolonialism. Robert Young examines the political, social, and cultural after-effects of decolonization by presenting situations, experiences, and testimony rather than going through the theory at an abstract level. He situates the debate in a wide cultural context, discussing its importance as an historical condition, with examples such as the status of aboriginal people, of those
dispossessed from their land, Algerian rai music, postcolonial feminism, and global social and ecological movements. Above all, Young argues, postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, and so in a new way continues the anti-colonial
struggles of the past.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Postcolonial Theory
- 2. Subaltern knowledge
- 3. Cultural hybridity
- 4. Postcolonial space
- 5. Gender
- 6. Conclusion
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