The postcolonial enlightenment
Subtitle: eighteenth-century colonialism and postcolonial theory
By: edited by Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780199229147
Subjects: Colonies in literature; Enlightenment; Postcolonialism; Imperialism in literature
Description: Leading scholars bring together 18th-century studies and postcolonial theory to analyze the role and reputation of enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperial projects and aspirations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-362) and index.