On post-colonial futures : transformations of colonial culture / Bill Ashcroft
- Bib ID:
- 2636812
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ashcroft, Bill, 1946-
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Continuum, 2001
- 170 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0826452264 (paperback)
- 0826452256 (hardback)
- Series:
- Writing past colonialism series.
- Summary:
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Proposes a radical view of the influence that colonised societies have had on their former colonisers. In this work, Ashcroft extends the arguments posed in The Empire Writes Back to investigate the transformative effects of post-colonial resistance and the continuing relevance of colonial struggle. Author from UNSW.
- Full contents:
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- Ch. 1. The future of English
- Ch. 2. Latin America and post-colonial transformation
- Ch. 3. 'Primitive and wingless': the colonial subject as child
- Ch. 4. Childhood and possibility: David Malouf's An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon
- Ch. 5. Sweet futures: sugar and colonialism
- Ch. 6. Caliban's language
- Ch. 7. Fractured paradigms: the fragility of discourse
- Ch. 8. Post-colonial excess and colonial transformation
- Ch. 9. A prophetic vision of the past: history and allegory in Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda
- Ch. 10. Irony, allegory and empire: J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and In the Heart of the Country.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-166) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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