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Postcolonial studies : a materialist critique

Author: Benita Parry
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series: Postcolonial literatures.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This volume presents a selection of reprinted and new essays by one of the most important critics in postcolonial studies. It constitutes a trenchant critique of the textualism that has dominated the field and proposes alternative critical and reading practices more attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions."--Jacket.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Benita Parry
ISBN: 041533599X 9780415335997 0415336007 9780415336000 9780203420539 0203420535
OCLC Number: 53138501
Description: xi, 239 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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, or the failed electrification of the empire of light --
Materiality and mystification in A passage to India.
Series Title: Postcolonial literatures.
Responsibility: Benita Parry.
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"This volume presents a selection of reprinted and new essays by one of the most important critics in postcolonial studies. It constitutes a trenchant critique of the textualism that has dominated the field and proposes alternative critical and reading practices more attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions."--Jacket.

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