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Friends and enemies : the scribal politics of post/colonial literature /
The author explores the troubled relationship between postcolonial theory and 'politics', both in the sense of a radical, revolutionary politics associated with anti-colonial struggle, and the almost inevitable implication of literary writers in institutional discourses of power.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Postcolonialism across the disciplines ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Humanitarian interventions : the Haitian revolution in translation, 1793-1833. Incursion I, France and Haiti, 1804/2004 : postimperial melancholy, 'new humanist' elation ; 'The friend of equalityj' : terror and forgetting in the novels of Jean-Baptiste Picquenard ; 'The cause of humanity' : Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal and the limits of liberal translation
- Between memory and nostalgia : commemorating post/colonialism, 1998-2004. Inclursion II ; 'Chroniques de la francophonie triomphante' : the dutiful memories of Reǵis Debray ; A street named Bissette : assimilating the cent-cinquantenaire of the abolition of slavery in Martinique (1848-1998) ; 'Monotonies of history' : Baron de Vastey and the mulatto legend of Derek Walcott's Haitian trilogy
- Exiles on main stream : browsing the Franco-Caribbean canon. Incursion III, Futures past? David Scott's Black Jacobins and the dead end of cultural politics ; Withering heights : Maryse Conde ́and the postcolonial middlebrow ; Spectres of Glissant : dealing in relation.