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On Post-Colonial Futures : Transformations of a Colonial Culture.
In this groundbreaking work, Bill Ashcroft extends the arguments posed in The Empire Writes Back to investigate the transformative effects of postcolonial resistance and the continuing relevance of colonial struggle. He demonstrates the remarkable capacity for change and adaptation emanating from po...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Continuum International Pub. Group,
2001.
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| Colección: | Writing past colonialism series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: The future of English; CHAPTER TWO: Latin America and post-colonial transformation; CHAPTER THREE: 'Primitive and wingless': the colonial subject as child; CHAPTER FOUR: Childhood and possibility: David Malouf's An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon; CHAPTER FIVE: Sweet futures: sugar and colonialism; CHAPTER SIX: Caliban's language; CHAPTER SEVEN: Fractured paradigms: the fragility of discourse; CHAPTER EIGHT: Post-colonial excess and colonial transformation.
- CHAPTER NINE: A prophetic vision of the past: history and allegory in Peter Carey's Oscar and LucindaCHAPTER TEN: Irony, allegory and empire: J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and In the Heart of the Country; References; Index.