Postcolonial theory : a critical introduction /: a critical introduction. ([2019?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Leela Gandhi.
• Authors: Gandhi, Leela, 1966-
• Contents: Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. After colonialism ; The colonial aftermath ; Postcolonial re-membering ; Gandhi and Fanon: The slave's recovery -- 2. Thinking otherwise: A brief intellectual history ; Marxism, poststructuralism and the problem of humanism ; What is enlightenment? -- Descartes' error -- Nietzsche's genealogy -- 3. Postcolonialism and the new humanities ; Provincialising Europe ; Power, knowledge and the humanities ; Oppositional criticism and the new humanities ; The world and the book ; The postcolonial intellectual -- 4. Edward Said and his critics ; Enter orientalism ; The Said phenomenon ; Rethinking colonial discourse -- 5. Postcolonialism and feminism ; Imperialist feminisms: Woman (in)difference ; Gendered subalterns: The (other) woman in the attic ; Conflicting loyalties: Brothers v. sisters ; Between men: Rethinking the colonial encounter -- 6. Imagining community: The question of nationalism ; Good and bad nationalisms ; Midnight's children: The politics of nationhood ; A derivative discourse? -- 7. One world: The vision of postnationalism ; Globalisation, hybridity, diaspora ; Mutual transformations ; Postnational utopias: Toward and ethics of hybridity -- 8. Postcolonial literatures ; Textual politics ; Postcolonial texts, anti-colonial politics -- 9. The limits of postcolonial theory ; The meta-narrative of colonialism ; The end of colonialism -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 1998
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 200 pages)
• Subjects: 301; 320.9045; Postcolonialism; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries; Postcolonialism; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474468312; 1474468314; 9780748611058; 0748611053
• Related ISBNs: 0748611045
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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