On Post-Colonial Futures: Transformations of a Colonial CultureIn this groundbreaking work, Bill Ashcroft extends the arguments posed in The Empire Writes Back to investigate the transformative effects of postcolonial resistance and the continuing relevance of colonial struggle. He demonstrates the remarkable capacity for change and adaptation emanating from postcolonial cultures both in everyday life and in the intellectual spheres of literature, history and philosophy. The transformations of postcolonial literary study have not been limited to a simple rewriting of the canon but have also affected the ways in which all literature can be read and have led to a more profound understanding of the network of cultural practices that influence creative writing. |
Contents
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Latin America and postcolonial transformation | 22 |
Primitive and wingless the colonial subject as child | 36 |
Childhood and possibility David Maloufs An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon | 54 |
Sweet futures sugar and colonialism | 67 |
Calibans language | 81 |
Fractured paradigms the fragility of discourse | 103 |
Postcolonial excess and colonial transformation | 116 |
A prophetic vision of the past history and allegory in Peter Careys Oscar and Lucinda | 128 |
Irony allegory and empire J M Coetzees Waiting for the Barbarians and In the Heart of the Country | 140 |
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Page 13 - We must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly necessary to recapitulate. It stands pre-eminent even among the languages of the West. It abounds with works of imagination not inferior to the noblest...
Page 13 - Whoever knows that language has ready access to all the vast intellectual wealth, which all the wisest nations of the earth have created and hoarded in the course of ninety generations.
References to this book
Post-colonial Studies: The Key Concepts Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin No preview available - 2007 |