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Postcolonial studies : a materialist critique / Benita Parry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parry, Benita.
- Series:
- Postcolonial literatures.
- Postcolonial literatures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Commonwealth literature (English).
- English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- English literature.
- Decolonization--Great Britain--Colonies.
- Decolonization.
- Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries.
- Postcolonialism.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Decolonization in literature.
- Materialism in literature.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Colonies in literature.
- Great Britain--Colonies--In literature.
- Great Britain.
- Commonwealth countries--In literature.
- Commonwealth countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Parry offers the compelling argument that theoretical work must strive to join remembrance of the material past with a critique of the contemporary condition, remaining unreconciled to the past and unconsoled by the present.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Beginnings, affiliations, disavowals; Problems in current theories of colonial discourse; Resistance theory/theorizing resistance or two cheers for nativism; Signs of the Times; Liberation theory: variations on themes of Marxism and modernity; Internationalism revisited or in praise of internationalism; Reading the signs of empire in metropolitan fiction; The content and discontents of Kipling's imperialism; Narrating imperialism: beyond Conrad's dystopias; Tono-Bungay: the failed electrification of the empire of light
- Materiality and Mystification in A Passage to IndiaReconciliation and remembrance; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781134307401
- 1134307403
- 9781134307418
- 1134307411
- 9780415335997
- 041533599X
- 9781280026157
- 1280026154
- 9780203420539
- 0203420535
- OCLC:
- 56557919
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