Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader

Author: Williams, Patrick

Brand: Columbia University Press

Edition: First Edition

Features:

• Colonial Discourse Post Colonial Theory A Reader

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 570

Release Date: 21-02-1994

Part Number: further reading list, bibliography

Details: Equally suitable for undergraduates and specialists in the humanities, this collection provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The readings are drawn from a diverse selection of Third World and Western thinkers, both historical and contemporary. "Post-colonialism" is taken by the editors to include Third World and diasporic experience; like "colonialism," it is understood to contain a complex set of cultural, ethnographic, political, and economic processes and conflicts.

This volume explores such issues as the nature of colonized cultures and anti-colonial resistance; subaltern historiography; constructions of Western subjectivity, knowledge, and gender; the formation of post-colonial intellectuals; the metropolitan institutionalization of post-colonialism; neo-colonialism; and the nature of minority and post-colonial identity and discourse. One section is devoted to the application of theoretical formulations to cultural criticism, and contains a number of textual analyses. A general introduction to the volume as well as introductions to each section provide historical, theoretical, and poltical contexts for the readings. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography.

EAN: 9780231100212

Package Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.0 x 1.3 inches

Languages: English