Re-Writing The Canon - Aspects Of Identity Reconstitution In Postcolonial Contexts

This book is concerned with ethnocentric/colonial representations of Europe's Other, and with postcolonial re-writings and subversions of such representations. It consists of a critical study of a cluster of canonical literary texts and Orientalist pictorial representations, and a critical assessment of a variety of postcolonial/resistance works writing back to these canonical texts and representations. Part of my concern with the colonial texts lies with what I consider to be sites of ambiguity in ethnocentric/colonial discourse. In my study of the postcolonial texts, emphasis is on the distinct oppositional strategies used by postcolonial writers in their subversive re-writings of colonial texts, and the different perspectives they adopt in their attempts at re-constituting and re-presenting postcolonial cultural identity and the Self from a position of oppositional, postcolonial historical and cultural consciousness.

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• Authors: Rachida Yassine, Yassine-R
• Publisher: Éditions universitaires européennes
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2011
• EAN: 9786131562198
• ISBN: 9786131562198
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 220 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 356 g
• Series: Omn.Univ.Europ.
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics