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Posts and Pasts
A Theory of Postcolonialism
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
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Deconstructs the field of postcolonial studies.In Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism, Alfred J. Lopez argues for a formulation of postcolonial studies which diverges in three significant ways from current academic and institutional practices: 1) the postcolonial as diasporic, constituted by a series of dispersed and irregular criticisms not at all containable within a single set of parameters, whether historical, geographical, or socioeconomic; 2) the postcolonial as a distinct ontological moment in the life of a nation or people, in which it conceives itself as doubly haunted—on the one hand by the "memory in advance" of a collective national future and on the other by its colonial past; and 3) the postcolonial as a distinct phenomenological moment, a radical break in the history of a relation between lords and bonds-women and -men.Going further than previous studies to address the postcolonial as a diasporic body of texts and discourses, it looks at a remarkable variety of writers-Joseph Conrad, Wilson Harris, Jose Marti, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Michelle Cliff, J. M. Coetzee, Franz Fanon, Gabriel Marcia Marquez, and Salman Rushdie.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2001-05-16
- Mått149 x 226 x 15 mm
- Vikt386 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieSUNY series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies
- Antal sidor288
- FörlagState University of New York Press
- ISBN9780791449943