De-Scribing Empire: Post-Colonialism and Textuality

by Lawson,Alan; Lawson,Alan

• ISBN13: 9780415105460
• ISBN10: 0415105463
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134846054
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-09-27
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

literature in western educational institutions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Post-Colonial Theory	p. 13
The Scramble for Post-Colonialism	p. 15
Excess	p. 33
Some Problems of Response to Empire in Settler Post-Colonial Societies	p. 45
Race and Representation	p. 59
Theorizing Racism	p. 61
The Myth of Authenticity	p. 70
Notes	p. 85
Breyten Breytenbach and the Censor	p. 86
De-Scribing Orality	p. 98
Reading Empire	p. 113
Inscribing the Emptiness	p. 115
The Unfinished Commonwealth	p. 131
'The Softest Disorder'	p. 141
'The Only Free People in the Empire'	p. 152
Re-Writing and Re-Reading Empire	p. 169
De-Scribing the Water-Babies	p. 171
Modernity, Voice, and Window-Breaking	p. 185
Notes	p. 198
Speaking the Unspeakable	p. 201
The Speaking Abject	p. 218
Notes	p. 229
Conclusion	p. 230
Bibliography	p. 236
Index	p. 250
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