De-scribing empire : post-colonialism and textuality /
De-scribing empire : post-colonialism and textuality /
edited by Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson.
- xii, 254 p.
Bibliography: p. 236-249.
List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The textuality of Empire -- The Scramble for Post-Colonialism -- Excess: Post-colonialism and the verandahs of meaning -- Some Problems of Response to Empire in Settler Post-Colonial Societies -- Theorizing Racism -- The Myth of Authenticity: Representation, discourse and social practice -- Breyten Breytenbach and the Censor -- De-scribing Orality: Performance and the recuperation of voice -- Inscribing the Emptiness: Cartography, exploration and the construction of Australia -- The Unfinished Commonwealth: Boundaries of civility in popular Australian fiction of the first Commonwealth decade -- 'The Softest Disorder': Representing cultural indeterminacy -- 'The Only Free People in the Empire': Gender difference in colonial discourse -- De-scribing the Water-Babies: 'The child' in post-colonial theory -- Modernity, Voice, and Window-breaking: Jean Rhys's 'Let them call it jazz' -- Speaking the Unspeakable: London, Cambridge and the Caribbean -- The Speaking Abject: The impossible possible world of realized Empire -- Conclusion: Reading difference -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
0415105471
Politics and literature
Imperialism in literature
Literature and society
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Bibliography: p. 236-249.
List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The textuality of Empire -- The Scramble for Post-Colonialism -- Excess: Post-colonialism and the verandahs of meaning -- Some Problems of Response to Empire in Settler Post-Colonial Societies -- Theorizing Racism -- The Myth of Authenticity: Representation, discourse and social practice -- Breyten Breytenbach and the Censor -- De-scribing Orality: Performance and the recuperation of voice -- Inscribing the Emptiness: Cartography, exploration and the construction of Australia -- The Unfinished Commonwealth: Boundaries of civility in popular Australian fiction of the first Commonwealth decade -- 'The Softest Disorder': Representing cultural indeterminacy -- 'The Only Free People in the Empire': Gender difference in colonial discourse -- De-scribing the Water-Babies: 'The child' in post-colonial theory -- Modernity, Voice, and Window-breaking: Jean Rhys's 'Let them call it jazz' -- Speaking the Unspeakable: London, Cambridge and the Caribbean -- The Speaking Abject: The impossible possible world of realized Empire -- Conclusion: Reading difference -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
0415105471
Politics and literature
Imperialism in literature
Literature and society
808