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Recently, the issues of colonialism and imperialism have come to the forefront of thinking in the humanities. This volume examines relevant issues from a range of historical perspectives. Central to the whole volume is a critique of the idea of the "post-colonial" itself.

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Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Transculturation and autoethnography: Peru 1615/1980
Mary Louise Pratt
Chapter 2 Rousseau’s patrimony: primitivism, romance and becoming other
Simon During
Chapter 3 The locked heart: the creole family romance of Wide Sargasso Sea
Peter Hulme
Chapter 4 The recalcitrant object: culture contact and the question of hybritidy
Annie E. Coombes
Chapter 5 Anthropology and race in Brazilian modernism
Zita Nuñes
Chapter 6 How to read a ‘culturally different’ book
Gayatri Spivak
Chapter 7 Post-apartheid narratives
Graham Pechey
Chapter 8 Resistance theory/theorising resistance, or two cheers for nativism
Benita Parry
Chapter 9 National consicousness and the specificity of (post) colonial intellectualism
Neil Lazarus
Chapter 10 Ethnic cultures, minority discourse and the state
David Lloyd
Chapter 11 Social justice and the crisis of national communities
Renato Rosaldo
Chapter 12 The angel of progress: pitfalls of the term ‘postcolonialism’
Anne McClintock
References
Notes on contributors
Index

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 6/27/1996 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780719048760
      978-0719048760
      ISBN-10 0719048761

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Recently, the issues of colonialism and imperialism have come to the forefront of thinking in the humanities. This volume examines relevant issues from a range of historical perspectives. Central to the whole volume is a critique of the idea of the "post-colonial" itself.

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Introduction
      Chapter 1 Transculturation and autoethnography: Peru 1615/1980
      Mary Louise Pratt
      Chapter 2 Rousseau’s patrimony: primitivism, romance and becoming other
      Simon During
      Chapter 3 The locked heart: the creole family romance of Wide Sargasso Sea
      Peter Hulme
      Chapter 4 The recalcitrant object: culture contact and the question of hybritidy
      Annie E. Coombes
      Chapter 5 Anthropology and race in Brazilian modernism
      Zita Nuñes
      Chapter 6 How to read a ‘culturally different’ book
      Gayatri Spivak
      Chapter 7 Post-apartheid narratives
      Graham Pechey
      Chapter 8 Resistance theory/theorising resistance, or two cheers for nativism
      Benita Parry
      Chapter 9 National consicousness and the specificity of (post) colonial intellectualism
      Neil Lazarus
      Chapter 10 Ethnic cultures, minority discourse and the state
      David Lloyd
      Chapter 11 Social justice and the crisis of national communities
      Renato Rosaldo
      Chapter 12 The angel of progress: pitfalls of the term ‘postcolonialism’
      Anne McClintock
      References
      Notes on contributors
      Index

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