Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? / Edition 1

by Ato Quayson

Overview

This important new book provides a critical introduction to the rapidly expanding field of postcolonial studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745617138
Publisher:	Polity Press
Publication date:	01/04/2000
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Ato Quayson is Lecturer in English and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Postcolonializing.

1. Instrumental and Synoptic Dimensions of Interdisciplinarity.

2. Postcolonial Historiography and the Problem of Local Knowledge.

3. Literature as a Politically Symbolic Act.

5. Feminism, Postcolonialism and the Contradictory Orders of Modernity.

6. Postcolonialism and Postmodernism.

7. Parables from the Canon: Postcolonializing Shakespeare.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

'Quayson's summary of the essence of the debate between Marshall Sahlins and Gannath Obeyesekere will be welcomed for its conciseness and its accuracy.' Research in African Literatures

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