Postcolonial Contraventions
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English
ISBN
0-7190-5827-9
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Imperialism
1 Tale of the city: the imperial metropolis of Heart of Darkness
2 Gendering imperialism: Anne McClintock and H. Rider Haggard
3 Empire’s culture in Fredric Jameson, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak
Part II Transnationalism and race
4 Journeying to death: Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic
5 Black Atlantic nationalism: Sol Plaatje and W.E.B.Du Bois
6 Transnational productions of Englishness: South Africa in the post-imperial metropole
Part III Postcolonial theoretical politics
7 Theorising race, racism and culture: David Lloyd’s work
8 Robert Young and the ironic authority of postcolonial criticism
9 Cultural studies in the new South Africa
10 ‘The Killer That Doesn’t Pay Back’: Chinua Achebe’s critique of cosmopolitics
11 You can get there from here: critique and utopia in Benita Parry’s thought
Bibliography
Index
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