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Rethinking postcolonialism : colonialist discourse in modern literatures and the legacy of classical writers /

Rethinking Postcolonialism challenges postcolonial discourse analysis and proposes a new model of interpretation that resituates the historical, ideological and conceptual denseness of the Colonial Idea. It questions key issues, including hybridity, Otherness and territoriality, and expands the post...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Acheraïou, Amar (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • PART 1
  • COLONIALIST DISCOURSE: A RHETORICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL PALIMPSEST
  • Modern Europe and Classical Connections
  • Imperial Ideology: Between Totality and Differentiation
  • Impact of Classical Discourse of Barbarism on Modern Colonial Taxonomies
  • Colonialism: From Hegemony to Infantilism
  • Modernist Writers, Classical Ideal, and Empire
  • PART II
  • MODERNIST LITERATURE AND COLONIALISM: BETWEEN CONTEXT AND COMPLICITY
  • Modernism, Modernity and Imperialism
  • Culture, Civilisation and Inter-Racial Encounters: Joseph Conrad's Almayers' Folly
  • Redeeming the Colonial Idea: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
  • Pedagogy of Re-Colonialisation of the Peaceful Re-Conquest: Andre Gide's Voyage au Congo
  • Split Between Radical Rhetoric and Conservative Practices: Graham Greene's Journey Without Maps
  • Getting out of the 'Nightmares' of History and 'Stiff' Imperial Culture: Albert Camus
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index.