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Postcolonial studies : a materialist critique /
Parry offers the compelling argument that theoretical work must strive to join remembrance of the material past with a critique of the contemporary condition, remaining unreconciled to the past and unconsoled by the present.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Series: | Postcolonial literatures.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Beginnings, affiliations, disavowals; Problems in current theories of colonial discourse; Resistance theory/theorizing resistance or two cheers for nativism; Signs of the Times; Liberation theory: variations on themes of Marxism and modernity; Internationalism revisited or in praise of internationalism; Reading the signs of empire in metropolitan fiction; The content and discontents of Kipling's imperialism; Narrating imperialism: beyond Conrad's dystopias; Tono-Bungay: the failed electrification of the empire of light.