Spivak and Postcolonialism - Exploring Allegations of Textuality

Informationen zum Autor TAOUFIQ SAKHKHANE is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the College of Arts and Human Sciences Fes-Sais, Morocco, and a translator of texts from English into Arabic. Klappentext Exploring! amongst other themes! representations of the other! strategies adopted to resist such representations! the issues of identity! nationalism! colonialism! feminism! subaltern studies and the English language within the context of Empire! this book projects a study of post-colonialism through the work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Zusammenfassung Exploring! amongst other themes! representations of the other! strategies adopted to resist such representations! the issues of identity! nationalism! colonialism! feminism! subaltern studies and the English language within the context of Empire! this book projects a study of post-colonialism through the work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Preface PART I Post-Colonialism and Postmodernism A Four-Hundred Year Old Woman The Greatest Gift of Deconstruction Spivak and the Literary Canon PART II English in the Clamped Mortar of Empire Identity Nationalism PART III For Language, Against Style Utopian in a World Without Utopia The Complicity between Post-Colonialism and Imperialism Feminism and the Risks of High Theory Conclusion Bibliography Index

List of contents

Acknowledgements Preface PART I Post-Colonialism and Postmodernism A Four-Hundred Year Old Woman The Greatest Gift of Deconstruction Spivak and the Literary Canon PART II English in the Clamped Mortar of Empire Identity Nationalism PART III For Language, Against Style Utopian in a World Without Utopia The Complicity between Post-Colonialism and Imperialism Feminism and the Risks of High Theory Conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: T Sakhkhane, T. Sakhkhane, Taoufiq Sakhkhane Sakhkhane
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2012
• EAN: 9781349335169
• ISBN: 978-1-349-33516-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Colonialism & imperialism, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, imperialism, World Literature, Culture—Study and teaching, Imperialism and Colonialism, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Postcolonial/World Literature, America—Literatures, North American Literature, Oriental literature, Asian Literature, colonialism;identity;imperialism;postmodernism