Postcolonial Theory Contexts, Practices, Politics

by Moore-Gilbert, Bart

• ISBN13: 9781859840344
• ISBN10: 1859840345
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-17
• Publisher: Verso

Summary

In the most comprehensive and accessible survey of postcolonial theory to date, Bart Moore-Gilbert offers a detailed history of the ways in which the relationship between culture and colonialism has traditonally been studied in the West. He traces the emergence of alternative forms of postcolonial analysis and, finally, assesses the overlaps and differences between postcolonial theory and other forms of postcolonial criticism.

Author Biography

Bart Moore-Gilbert is Professor of Postcolonial Studies and English at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices and Politics, Kipling and “Orientaliism”, and editor of Literature and Imperialism, Cultural Revolution? The Challenge of the Arts in the 1960s, The Arts in the 1970s: Cultural Closure?, Writing India: British Representations of India 1857–1990 and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Preface	p. 1
Postcolonial Criticism or Postcolonial Theory?	p. 5
Edward Said: Orientalism and Beyond	p. 34
Gayatri Spivak: the Deconstructive Twist	p. 74
Homi Bhabha: 'The Babelian Performance'1	p. 114
Postcolonial Criticism and Postcolonial Theory	p. 152
Conclusion Postcolonial Futures: Things Fall Apart?	p. 185
Notes	p. 204
Index	p. 235
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