Postcolonial Studies

A Materialist Critique
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-33599-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

Reihe: Postcolonial Literatures

This powerful selection of essays proposes practices of reading and criticism to make the field of postcolonial studies more fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions. Benita Parry points to 'directions and dead ends' in the discipline she has helped to shape, with a first series of essays vigorously challenging colonial discourse theory and postcolonialism as we have known them. She then turns to literature with a series of detailed readings that not only demonstrate her theoretical position at work, but also give new dimensions to widely studied texts by Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells and E. M. Forster. Parry argues throughout that the material impulses of colonialism, its appropriation of physical resources, exploitation of human labour and institutional repression have too long been allowed to recede from view.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parry, Benita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements, Part One: Directions and dead ends in postcolonial studies, Part Two: The imperial imaginary, Coda, Notes, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Benita Parry is Honorary Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.