Postcolonial contraventions : cultural readings of race, imperialism, and transnationalism / Laura Chrisman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chrisman, Laura.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies.

Decolonization.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Both polemical and scholarly, this text is challenging in its analysis of black Atlantic studies, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory. Chrisman provides important paradigms for understanding imperial literature, Englishness, and black transnationalism.

Contents:

Introduction

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

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-194) and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610733965

9781781700136

1781700133

9781280733963

1280733969

9781847790194

1847790194

9781417590223

141759022X

OCLC:

645088402