White Skins/Black Masks - Representation and Colonialism

List of contents

INTRODUCTION Part I 1 BODY/BORDER LINES 2 THE DOMINION OF SONS 3 MIMESIS OF SAVAGERY TRANSITIONS Part II 4 THE COLONIAL UNCANNY 5 THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT 6 THE COLONIAL MIRROR 7 LOAFERS AND STORY-TELLERS, CONCLUSION

About the author

Gail Ching-Liang Low lectures at Staffordshire University and has published articles in New Formations and Women: A Cultural Review.

Summary

In this highly exciting re-reading of the classic works of Haggard and Kipling, Gail Ching-Liang Low explores how the colonialised Other is a mirror reflecting the images of the coloniser - 'a cultural cross-dressing.'

Product details

• Authors: Gail Ching-Liang Low, Ching-Liang Low Gail, Gail Ching-Liang Low
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.12.1995
• EAN: 9780415081474
• ISBN: 978-0-415-08147-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Weight: 720 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Colonialism & imperialism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form