Postcolonial Contraventions : Cultural Readings of Race, Imperialism and Transnationalism

by Laura Chrisman

• ISBN13: 9780719058271
• ISBN10: 0719058279
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2003-06-28
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This book provides unique “insider” critical insights into the ever-growing field of Postcolonial Studies, from one of the field's original architects.

Author Biography

Laura Chrisman teaches Postcolonial Studies at the University of York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vi
Introduction	1	(20)
Part I Imperialism
Tale of the city: the imperial metropolis of Heart of Darkness	21	(18)
Gendering imperialism: Anne McClintock and H. Rider Haggard	39	(12)
Empire's culture in Fredric Jameson, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak	51	(22)
Part II Transnationalism and race
Journeying to death: Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic	73	(16)
Black Atlantic nationalism: Sol Plaatje and W.E.B. Du Bois	89	(18)
Transnational productions of Englishness: South Africa in the post-imperial metropole	107	(20)
Part III Postcolonial theoretical politics
Theorising race, racism and culture: David Lloyd's work	127	(11)
Robert Young and the ironic authority of postcolonial criticism	138	(7)
Cultural studies in the new South Africa	145	(12)
`The Killer That Doesn't Pay Back': Chinua Achebe's critique of cosmopolitics	157	(7)
You can get there from here: critique and utopia in Benita Parry's thought	164	(11)
Bibliography	175	(20)
Index	195