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Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique

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    9780415335997

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    041533599X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-06-17
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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 and reading practices more attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions. In the opening chapter, Benita Parry outlines the historical and personal contexts from which her work has emerged and points to 'directions and dead ends' in the field she has helped to shape. This is followed by a series of essays that vigorously challenge colonial discourse theory and postcolonialism as we have known them. Parry then turns to literature with a series of detailed textual and contextual readings of well-known texts. These not only demonstrate her theoretical position at work, but also give new dimensions to widely studied texts by Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells and E. M. Forster. While acknowledging the significance of much workdone under the emblem of postcolonial studies, Parry argues throughout that the material impulses of colonialism, its appropriation of physical resources, exploitation of human labour and institutional repression have too long been allowed to recede from view. What then is the future of postcolonial theory? Parry concludes with 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 Critiqueoffers an invaluable framework upon which to build such a future.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Part One: Directions and dead ends in postcolonial studies
Beginnings, affiliations, disavowals
3(10)
Problems in current theories of colonial discourse
13(24)
Resistance theory/theorizing resistance or two cheers for nativism
37(18)
Signs of the Times
55(20)
Liberation theory: variations on themes of Marxism and modernity
75(18)
Internationalism revisited or in praise of internationalism
93(14)
Part Two: The imperial imaginary
Reading the signs of empire in metropolitan fiction
107(12)
The content and discontents of Kipling's imperialism
119(13)
Narrating imperialism: beyond Conrad's dystopias
132(16)
Tono-Bungay: the failed electrification of the empire of light
148(14)
Materiality and Mystification in A Passage to India
162(17)
Coda
Reconciliation and remembrance
179(16)
Notes 195(36)
Index 231

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