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De-scribing empire : post-colonialism and textuality /
De-Scribing Empire is a stunning collection of first-class essays. Collectively they examine the formative role of books, writing and textuality in imperial control and the fashioning of colonial world-views. The volume as a whole puts forward strategies for understanding and neutralising that contr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : The textuality of empire / Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson
- The scramble for post-colonialism / Stephen Slemon
- Excess : post-colonialism and the verandahs of meaning / Bill Ashcroft
- Some problems of response to empire in settler post-colonial societies / Chris Prentice
- Theorizing racism / Terry Collits
- The myth of authenticity : representation, discourse and social practice / Gareth Griffiths
- Breyten Breytenbach and the censor / J.M. Coetzee
- De-scribing orality : performance and the recuperation of voice / Helen Gilbert
- Inscribing the emptiness : cartography, exploration an dthe construction of Australia / Simon Ryan
- The unfinished Commonwealth : boundaries of civility in popular Australian fiction of the first Commonwealth decade / Robert Dixon
- "The softest disorder" : representing cultural indeterminacy / Fiona Giles
- "The only free people in the Empire" : gender difference in colonial discourse / Bridget Orr
- De-scribing The Water-babies : 'the child' in post-colonial theory / Jo-Ann Wallace
- Modernity, voice, and window-breaking : Jean Rhys's 'Let them call it jazz' / Sue Thomas
- Speaking the unspeakable : London, Cambridge and the Caribbean / Paul Sharrad
- The speaking abject : the impossible world of realized empire / Howard McNaughton
- Conclusion : Reading difference / Alan Lawson and Chris Tiffin.