The postcolonial challenge towards alternative worlds

Summary: 'Couze Venn's book makes an outstanding contribution to our understanding of post-colonial theory and its engagement with significant changes within the contemporary world.. This is a timely and ground breaking book that contributes to a much needed reconceptualisation of the postcolony' - Professor Pal Ahluwalia, Goldsmiths College, University of London. This concise and penetrating book maps the territory of post-colonial studies, Venn demonstrates the intrinsic relationship between identity and post-colonialism and connects post-colonialism with modernity. Introducing new perspectives in th.

Record details

ISBN: 9781848605572 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1848605579 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0761971610 (cased)
ISBN: 9780761971610 (cased)
ISBN: 0761971629 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780761971627 (pbk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (219 p.)
Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE, c2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-210) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Rethinking the scope of the postcolonial -- Modernity, modernization and the postcolonial present -- Question of identity and agency -- Towards a postcolonial political economy.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.