Postcolonialism
Theory, Practice or Process?
1. Edition October 1999
216 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-7456-1713-8
John Wiley & Sons
This important new book provides a critical introduction to the rapidly expanding field of postcolonial studies.
Introduction: Postcolonializing.
1. Instrumental and Synoptic Dimensions of
Interdisciplinarity.
2. Postcolonial Historiography and the Problem of Local
Knowledge.
3. Literature as a Politically Symbolic Act.
5. Feminism, Postcolonialism and the Contradictory Orders of
Modernity.
6. Postcolonialism and Postmodernism.
7. Parables from the Canon: Postcolonializing
Shakespeare.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
1. Instrumental and Synoptic Dimensions of
Interdisciplinarity.
2. Postcolonial Historiography and the Problem of Local
Knowledge.
3. Literature as a Politically Symbolic Act.
5. Feminism, Postcolonialism and the Contradictory Orders of
Modernity.
6. Postcolonialism and Postmodernism.
7. Parables from the Canon: Postcolonializing
Shakespeare.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
'Quayson's summary of the essence of the debate between Marshall Sahlins and Gannath Obeyesekere will be welcomed for its conciseness and its accuracy.' Research in African Literatures
Ato Quayson is Lecturer in English and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.