The post-colonial question : common skies, divided horizons / edited by Iain Chambers and Lidia Curti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chambers, Iain.

Curti, Lidia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity.

Cultural pluralism.

Ethnic relations.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 269 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

Summary:

Brings together renowned and emerging critical voices to respond to the questions raised by the concept of the 'post-colonial'. The contributors explore the diverse cultures which are shaping our global future.

Contents:

Front Cover

The Post-Colonial Question

Copyright Page

Contents

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface

Part I: Critical landscapes

1. The undone interval: Trinh T. Minh-ha in conversation with Annamaria Morelli

2. Route work: the black Atlantic and the politics of exile: Paul Gilroy

3. Different, youthful, subjectivities: Angela McRobbie

4. Signs of silence, lines of listening: Iain Chambers

Part II: Post-colonial time

5. Histories, empires and the post-colonial moment: Catherine Hall

6. African cities, historical memory and street buzz: Allessandro Triulzi

7. Irishness - feminist and post-colonial: Wanda Balzano

8. Ethnic conflict in post-colonial India: Amedeo Maiello

9. Black cultures in difference: Marie Hélène Laforest

Part III: Frontier journeys: the space of interrogation

10. Between two shores: Lidia Curti

11. Defining forces: 'race', gender and memories of empire: Vron Ware

12. Identity and alterity in J. M. Coetzee's Foe: Laura Di Michele

13. The space of culture, the power of space: Lawrence Grossberg

14. Writers from elsewhere: Stefano Manferlotti

Part IV: Whose world, whose home?

15. Unpacking my library . . . again: Homi K. Bhabha

16. Mass exoticisms: Clara Gallini

17. Some troubled homecomings: Demetrio Yocum

18. A tribe called Europe: Marina De Chiara

19. My son the fanatic: Hanif Kureishi

20. When was 'the post-colonial'? Thinking at the limit: Stuart Hall

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780203138328 : (ebk : EbookCentral)

9780203138328

OCLC:

51934061