Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? by Ato Quayson (University of Toronto)
This important new book provides a critical introduction to the rapidly expanding field of postcolonial studies.
Postcolonialism
Summary
A wide-ranging account and critical introduction to postcolonial studies. Also includes broad coverage of African Studies - an area normally overlooked in introductions of this kind.
Postcolonialism Summary
Postcolonialism 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
About Ato Quayson (University of Toronto)
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.
Additional information
NLS9780745617138
9780745617138
0745617131
Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? by Ato Quayson (University of Toronto)
New
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
1999-10-16
216
N/A
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