Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique

ISBN-13: 9780415336000 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 252 str.

Benita Parry

Opis

This volume presents a powerful 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 reading practices more attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions. What then is the future of postcolonial theory? 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. Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique offers an invaluable framework upon which to build such a future.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements, Part One: Directions and dead ends in postcolonial studies, Part Two: The imperial imaginary, Coda, Notes, Index

O autorze

Benita Parry is Honorary Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.