The empire writes back : theory and practice in post-colonial literatures / Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin
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- Ashcroft, Bill, 1946-
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- 2nd ed.
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2002
- x, 283 p. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0415280192
- 0415280206
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- New accents (Routledge (Firm))
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- Machine derived contents note: GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE ix
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
- Introduction What are post-colonial literatures? 1
- Post-colonial literatures and English Studies 2
- Development of post-colonial literatures 4
- Hegemony 6
- Language 7
- Place and displacement 8
- Post-coloniality and theory 11
- Cutting the ground: critical models of post-colonial
- literatures 14
- National and regional models 15
- Comparisons between two or more regions 17
- The 'Black writing' model 19
- Wider comparative models 22
- Models of hybridity and syncreticity 32
- 2 Re-placing language: textual strategies in postcolonial writing 37
- Abrogation and appropriation 37
- Language and abrogation 40
- A post-colonial linguistic theory: the Creole continuum 43
- The metonymicfunction of language variance 50
- Strategies of appropriation in post-colonial writing 58
- 3 Re-placing the text: the liberation of post-colonial
- writing 77
- The imperial moment: control of the means of
- communication 78
- Colonialism and silence: Lewis Nkosi's Mating Birds 82
- Colonialism and 'authenticity': VS. Naipaul's The
- Mimic Men 87
- Abrogating 'authenticity': Michael Anthony's 'Sandra
- Street' 90
- Radical Otherness and hybridity: Timothy Findley's
- Not Wanted on the Voyage 96
- Appropriating marginality:Janet Frame's The Edge of
- the Alphabet 102
- Appropriating theframe of power: R.K. Narayan's The
- Vendor of Sweets 108
- 4 Theory at the crossroads: indigenous theory and
- post-colonial reading 115
- Indian literary theories 116
- African literary theories 122
- The settler colonies 131
- Caribbean theories 144
- 5 Re-placing theory: post-colonial writing and literary
- theory 153
- Post-colonial literatures and postmodernism 153
- Post-colonial reconstructions: literature, meaning, value 178
- Post-colonialism as a reading strategy 186
- 6 Re-thinking the post-colonial: post-colonialism in
- the twenty first century 193
- Who is post-colonial? 200
- Theoretical issues 203
- Post-colonialfutures 209
- Conclusion More english than English 220
- READERS' GUIDE 223
- NOTES 238
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 246
- INDEX 271.
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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