The Postcolonial Unconscious

ISBN-13: 9780521186261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 310 str.

Neil Lazarus

Opis

Places postcolonial literary studies on a new conceptual footing; introduces the concepts, methods and substantive themes underpinning this new approach.

Recenzje

'Not simply brilliant, but definitive - a map for the future of postcolonial studies. Every line is vividly historical, patiently logical, but also unexpected and generous: the sociologist meets the poet. Along with a compelling new theory of 'peripheral modernism', Lazarus introduces us to a vast body of novels and poetry from every corner of the postcolonial world, with a range that is simply unmatched by anyone. Along the way, he shows that postcolonial theory is in its literature, not in what goes by that name in the metropolitan academy. A profoundly important, explosive, and paradigm-shifting book.' Timothy Brennan, University of Minnesota

Spis treści

Introduction: the political unconscious of postcolonial studies; 1. The politics of postcolonial modernism; 2. Fredric Jameson on 'third-world literature': a qualified defence; 3. 'A figure glimpsed in a rear-view mirror': the question of representation in 'postcolonial' fiction; 4. Frantz Fanon after the 'postcolonial prerogative'; 5. The battle over Edward Said.