Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power: Empire�s Individuals

ISBN-13: 9780367873356 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 244 str.

Daniel F. Silva

Opis

This book brings forth a new contribution to the study of imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial power.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Imperial Interpellations: Signifying the West’s Scene of Writing 2. In the Name-of-the-Father: Imperial Mastery, Paternity, and Settlement 3. Signifying Bodies: Slavery and the Writing of Western Nationhood in Postcolonial Americas 4. Postcolonial Modernity and the Fantasies of Universality 5. Meaning in Movement: Empire, Postcoloniality and Late Capitalism Conclusion

O autorze

Daniel F. Silva is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at Middlebury College, USA.