Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory

by Barker, Francis; Hulme, Peter; Iversen, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780719048760
• ISBN10: 0719048761
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr

Summary

The issues of colonialism and imperialism have recently come to the forefront of thinking in the humanities. Disciplines such as history, literature and anthropology are taking stock of their extensive and usually unacknowledged legacy of Empire. At the same time, contemporary cultural theory has had to respond to post-colonial pressure, with its different registers and agendas. This volume ranges, geographically, from Brazil to India and South Africa, from the Andes to the Caribbean and the USA. This range is matched by a breadth of historical perspectives. Central to the whole volume is a critique of the very idea of the "postcolonial" itself. Contributors include Annie Coombes, Simon During, Peter Hulme, Neil Lazarus, David Lloyd, Anne McClintock, Zita Nunes, Benita Parry, Graham Pechey, Mary Louise Pratt, Renato Rosaldo and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

Table of Contents

Preface to the series	vii
Introduction	1	(23)
Transculturation and autoethnography: Peru 1615/1980	24	(23)
Mary Louise Pratt
Rousseau's patrimony: primitivism, romance and becoming other	47	(25)
Simon During
The locked heart: the creole family romance of Wide sargasso sea	72	(17)
Peter Hulme
The recalcitrant object: culture contact and the question of hybridity	89	(26)
Annie E. Coombes
Anthropology and race in Brazilian modernism	115	(11)
Zita Nunes
How to read a `culturally different' book	126	(25)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Post-apartheid narratives	151	(21)
Graham Pechey
Resistance theory/theorising resistance, or two cheers for nativism	172	(25)
Benita Parry
National consciousness and the specificity of (post) colonial intellectualism	197	(24)
Neil Lazarus
Ethnic cultures, minority discourse and the state	221	(18)
David Lloyd
Social justice and the crisis of national communities	239	(14)
Renato Rosaldo
The angel of progress: pitfalls of the term `postcolonialism'	253	(14)
Anne McClintock
References	267	(16)
Notes on contributors and editors	283	(2)
Index	285