Postcolonial studies : a materialist critique / Benita Parry.

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Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Main Author:
Parry, Benita
Series:Postcolonial literatures
Subjects:
Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
English literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Decolonization > Great Britain > Colonies.
Postcolonialism > Commonwealth countries.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Materialism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Great Britain > Colonies > In literature.
Commonwealth countries > In literature.
Format: Book
Postcolonial studies : a materialist critique /
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Directions and dead ends in postcolonial studies
  • 1. Beginnings, affiliations, disavowals
  • 2. Problems in current theories of colonial discourse
  • 3. Resistance theory/theorizing resistance or two cheers for nativism
  • 4. Signs of the Times
  • 5. Liberation theory : variations on themes of Marxism and modernity
  • 6. Internationalism revisited or in praise of internationalism
  • Pt. 2. The imperial imaginary
  • 7. Reading the signs of empire in metropolitan fiction
  • 8. The content and discontents of Kipling's imperialism
  • 9. Narrating imperialism : beyond Conrad's dystopias
  • 10. Tono-Bungay : the failed electrification of the empire of light
  • 11. Materiality and mystification in A passage to India
  • 12. Reconciliation and remembrance.

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