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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 postcolonial field by introducing valuable, ground-breaking theoretical concepts: colonialism-as-grafting, colonialist discourse as a rhetorical and ideological palimpsest, m̌tissage as the space of the impossible. Amar Achera̐ou explores imperial intellectual history and shows how the classical writers₂ ideas on race, culture, identity and Otherness served as a template for modern colonialist ideology. Besides mapping the multi-layered Western imperial consciousness, the book probes Europe's anti-colonial tradition. It integrates the discussion of modernist literature with a critique of European post-Enlightenment philosophical concepts. In this interdisciplinary study, Achera̐ou addresses both ancient and modern canonical texts, and offers insightful textual analyses of works by Aristotle, Plato, Rudyard Kipling, Rider Haggard, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, Andř Gide and Albert Camus. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 250 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-244) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230583573 0230583571 9786611976125 6611976124 |