Colonial discourse / postcolonial theory

by Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iverson

Overview

The issues of colonialism and imperialism have recently come to the forefront of thinking in the humanities. Disciplines such as history, literature and anthropology are taking stock of their extensive and usually unacknowledged legacy of Empire. At the same time, contemporary cultural theory has had to respond to post-colonial pressure, with its different registers and agendas. This volume ranges, geographically, from Brazil to India and South Africa, from the Andes to the Caribbean and the USA. This range is matched by a breadth of historical perspectives. Central to the whole volume is a critique of the very idea of the "postcolonial" itself. Contributors include Annie Coombes, Simon During, Peter Hulme, Neil Lazarus, David Lloyd, Anne McClintock, Zita Nunes, Benita Parry, Graham Pechey, Mary Louise Pratt, Renato Rosaldo and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719048760
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	06/27/1996
Series:	Essex Symposia
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Francis Barker is a Reader and Peter Hulme is a Professor in the Department of Literature, and Margaret Iversen is a Lecturer in the Department of Art History, all at the University of Essex

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Transculturation and autoethnography: Peru 1615/1980
Mary Louise Pratt
Chapter 2 Rousseau’s patrimony: primitivism, romance and becoming other
Simon During
Chapter 3 The locked heart: the creole family romance of Wide Sargasso Sea
Peter Hulme
Chapter 4 The recalcitrant object: culture contact and the question of hybritidy
Annie E. Coombes
Chapter 5 Anthropology and race in Brazilian modernism
Zita Nuñes
Chapter 6 How to read a ‘culturally different’ book
Gayatri Spivak
Chapter 7 Post-apartheid narratives
Graham Pechey
Chapter 8 Resistance theory/theorising resistance, or two cheers for nativism
Benita Parry
Chapter 9 National consicousness and the specificity of (post) colonial intellectualism
Neil Lazarus
Chapter 10 Ethnic cultures, minority discourse and the state
David Lloyd
Chapter 11 Social justice and the crisis of national communities
Renato Rosaldo
Chapter 12 The angel of progress: pitfalls of the term ‘postcolonialism’
Anne McClintock
References
Notes on contributors
Index