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Postcolonialism – An Historical Introduction, Anniversary Edition

Autor RJ Young
en Paperback – 14 oct 2016
"This book is concerned with the revolutionary history of the non-Western world and its centuries-long struggle to overthrow Western imperialism: from slow beginnings in the eighteenth century, the last half of the twentieth century witnessed more than a quarter of the world's population win their freedom. It was written before the momentous political events of the twenty-first century: published two months before the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and ten years before the Arab revolutions that erupted across the Arab world in 2011. It had been originally commissioned as an introduction to postcolonialism at a time when 'postcolonial theory' formed an innovative body of thinking that was making waves beyond its own disciplinary location. That interest was the mark of a new phase within many Western societies in which immigrants from the global South had begun to emerge as influential cultural voices challenging the basis of the manner in which European and North American societies represented themselves and their own histories. The late Edward Said and Stuart Hall both symbolized the ways in which intellectuals who had been born in former colonies became spokespersons for a popular radical re-evaluation of contemporary culture: a profound transformation of society and its values was underway. That revolution involved the consensus of an equality amongst different people and cultures rather than the hierarchy that had been developed since the beginning of the nineteenth century as a central feature of Western imperialism. Postcolonial critique has been so successful"--Provided by publisher.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405120944
ISBN-10: 1405120940
Pagini: 536
Dimensiuni: 170 x 244 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.84 kg
Ediția:Anniversary Edition
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

This is a book for all those studying postcolonialism, postcolonial theory, from an historical perspective, both in cultural studies and in literature departments, and in race and ethnicity.

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Descriere

This seminal work now available in a 15th anniversary edition with a new preface is a thorough introduction to the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory.