TY  - BOOK
AU  - 
TI  - Postcolonial theory:  a critical introduction
SN  - 9780748611041
AV  - JV51 .G36 1998
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; After colonialism ; The colonial aftermath ; Postcolonial re-membering ; Gandhi and Fanon: The slave's recovery--Thinking otherwise: A brief intellectual history ; Marxism, poststructuralism and the problem of humanism ; What is enlightenment?--Descartes' error--Nietzsche's genealogy--Postcolonialism and the new humanities ; Provincialising Europe ; Power, knowledge and the humanities ; Oppositional criticism and the new humanities ; The world and the book ; The postcolonial intellectual--Edward Said and his critics ; Enter orientalism ; The Said phenomenon ; Rethinking colonial discourse--Postcolonialism and feminism ; Imperialist feminisms: Woman (in)difference ; Gendered subalterns: The (other) woman in the attic ; Conflicting loyalties: Brothers v. sisters ; Between men: Rethinking the colonial encounter--Imagining community: The question of nationalism ; Good and bad nationalisms ; Midnight's children: The politics of nationhood ; A derivative discourse?--One world: The vision of postnationalism ; Globalisation, hybridity, diaspora ; Mutual transformations ; Postnational utopias: Toward and ethics of hybridity--Postcolonial literatures ; Textual politics ; Postcolonial texts, anti-colonial politics--The limits of postcolonial theory ; The meta-narrative of colonialism ; The end of colonialism
ER  -