Posts and pasts
Subtitle: a theory of postcolonialism
By: Alfred J. López.
Series: SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies
Publisher: State University of New York Press; State Univ of New York Pr
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Criticism -- History -- 20th century.; Postcolonialism in literature.; Postcolonialism.; Developing countries -- Literatures -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Description: "In Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism, Alfred J. Lopez argues for a formulation of postcolonial studies which diverges in three significant ways from current academic and institutional practices: 1) the postcolonial as diasporic, constituted by a series of dispersed and irregular criticisms not at all containable within a single set of parameters, whether historical, geographical, or socioeconomic; 2) the postcolonial as a distinct ontological moment in the life of a nation or people, in which it conceives itself as doubly haunted - on the one hand by the "memory in advance" of a collective national future and on the other by its colonial past; and 3) the postcolonial as a distinct phenomenological moment, a radical break in the history of a relation between lords and bonds-women and -men."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index.