Colonial Discourse/ Post-Colonial Theory
Contributors: Patrick Williams (Editor); Laura Chrisman (Editor)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: April 15, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 569
ISBN-13: 9780231100212
Subjects: Colonization & independence; Cultural studies; Emigration & Immigration; History & Theory - General; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Sociology; Colonies; Decolonization; Postcolonialism; Literary Criticism
First sentence: Theorising the nature of colonised subjectivity and of cultural and political resistance raises a number of questions: the place of national and nationalist culture in relation to political liberation; the nature of colonialism's cultural impact on the psyches of the colonised and vice versa; essentialist and anti-essentialist views of cultural identity.