De-scribing empire : post-colonialism and textuality / edited by Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tiffin Lawson Staff, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Tiffin, Chris.

Lawson, Alan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

De-Scribing Empire is a stunning collection of first-class essays. Collectively they examine the formative role of books, writing and textuality in imperial control and the fashioning of colonial world-views. The volume as a whole puts forward strategies for understanding and neutralising that control, and as such is a major contribution to the field. It will be invaluable for students in post-colonialist criticism.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION The textuality of Empire; THE SCRAMBLE FOR POST-COLONIALISM; EXCESS Post-colonialism and the verandahs of meaning; SOME PROBLEMS OF RESPONSE TO EMPIRE IN SETTLER POST-COLONIAL SOCIETIES; THEORIZING RACISM; THE MYTH OF AUTHENTICITY Representation, discourse and social practice; BREYTEN BREYTENBACH AND THE CENSOR; DE-SCRIBING ORALITY Performance and the recuperation of voice; INSCRIBING THE EMPTINESS Cartography, exploration and the construction of Australia

THE UNFINISHED COMMONWEALTH Boundaries of civility in popular Australian fiction of the first Commonwealth decade'THE SOFTEST DISORDER' Representing cultural indeterminacy; 'THE ONLY FREE PEOPLE IN THE EMPIRE' Gender difference in colonial discourse; DE-SCRIBING THE WATER-BABIES 'The child' in post-colonial theory; MODERNITY, VOICE, AND WINDOW-BREAKING Jean Rhys's 'Let them call it jazz'; SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE London, Cambridge and the Caribbean; THE SPEAKING ABJECT The impossible possible world of realized Empire; CONCLUSION Reading difference; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-249) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-84605-3

1-280-32577-1

1-134-84606-1

0-585-45162-1

9780203203682

OCLC:

62593908