num_pages: 192
description: Through close readings of works by writers like C. L. R. James, Salman Rushdie, Ama Ata Aidoo, Michelle Cliff, and Hanif Kureishi, Using the Masterâ€s Tools examines instances of textual resistance elaborated within imperial/metropolitan epistemologies and ideologies. In her analysis, Anuradha Needham focuses especially on each writerâ€s historical location, personal and political affiliations, presumed audiences, and position on gender as integral contextual determinants of the strategies of textual resistance each deploys. Drawing on the extensive scholarship on â€œsubalternâ€ and anti-colonial resistances in a number of disciplines, this book demonstrates the mutual interactions of (general) theory with (specific) practice such that each is enriched, extended, and refurbished.
language: English
title: Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas
titlecomplete: Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan