Postcolonial contraventions cultural readings of race, imperialism, and transnationalism

Summary: "Laura Chrisman's Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader was published in 1993. It quickly became a landmark of postcolonial studies. This timely new book offers insights into the field she helped establish. Both polemical and scholarly, Postcolonial contraventions is challenging in its analysis of black Atlantic studies, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory. She provides important new paradigms for understanding imperial literature, Englishness, and black transnationalism. Her concerns range from the metropolitan centre of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, to fatherhood in Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk; from the marketing of South African literature to cosmopolitanism in Chinua Achebe; from utopian discourse in Benita Parry to Frederic Jameson's theorisation of empire. Chrisman also critically engages with postcolonial intellectuals Paul Gilroy, David Lloyd, Anne McClintock, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak and Robert Young, uncovering conservatism from unexpected quarters. The book joins a growing chorus of materialist voices within postcolonial studies, and addresses an urgent need for greater attention to the political, historical and socio-economic elements of cultural production. This book will be of interest to students, researchers and teachers of postcolonial studies, theory and literature; black diaspora and Atlantic studies; imperialism and Victorian literature of empire, and British literature of the nineteenth century"--Publisher's description.

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ISBN: 141759022X (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781417590223 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0719058279 (hc.)
ISBN: 9780719058271 (hc.)
ISBN: 0719058287 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780719058288 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1847790194
ISBN: 9781847790194
ISBN: 1280733969
ISBN: 9781280733963
ISBN: 1847790194
ISBN: 9781847790194
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (viii, 200 pages)
Publisher: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, ©2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-194) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Tale of the city: the imperial metropolis of Heart of darkness -- Gendering imperialism: Anne McClintock and H. Rider Haggard -- Empire's culture in Fredric Jameson, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak -- Journeying to death: Paul Gilroy's The black Atlantic -- Black Atlantic nationalism: Sol Plaatje and W.E.B. Du Bois -- Transnational productions of Englishness: South Africa in the post-imperial metropole -- Theorising race, racism and culture: David Lloyd's work -- Robert Young and the ironic authority of postcolonial criticism -- Cultural studies in the new South Africa -- 'The killer that doesn't pay back': Chinua Achebe's critique of cosmopolitics -- You can get there from here: critique and utopia in Benita Parry's thought.
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
Language Note:	English.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.