Postcolonial Melancholia (The Wellek Library Lectures)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: September 22, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780231134545
Subjects: Multicultural studies; Philosophy; Sociology; British Isles; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Political; Sociology - Social Theory; Social Science / Sociology / General; Great Britain; Minorities; National characteristics, Brit; Pluralism (Social sciences); Race discrimination
First sentence: The horrors of the twentieth century brought "races" to political life far more vividly and naturalistically than imperial conquest and colonial administration had done.