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De-scribing empire : post-colonialism and textuality / edited by Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 1994Description: xii, 254 pISBN:
  • 0415105471
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808
Contents:
List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The textuality of Empire -- 1. The Scramble for Post-Colonialism -- 2. Excess: Post-colonialism and the verandahs of meaning -- 3. Some Problems of Response to Empire in Settler Post-Colonial Societies -- 4. Theorizing Racism -- 5. The Myth of Authenticity: Representation, discourse and social practice -- 6. Breyten Breytenbach and the Censor -- 7. De-scribing Orality: Performance and the recuperation of voice -- 8. Inscribing the Emptiness: Cartography, exploration and the construction of Australia -- 9. The Unfinished Commonwealth: Boundaries of civility in popular Australian fiction of the first Commonwealth decade -- 10. 'The Softest Disorder': Representing cultural indeterminacy -- 11. 'The Only Free People in the Empire': Gender difference in colonial discourse -- 12. De-scribing the Water-Babies: 'The child' in post-colonial theory -- 13. Modernity, Voice, and Window-breaking: Jean Rhys's 'Let them call it jazz' -- 14. Speaking the Unspeakable: London, Cambridge and the Caribbean -- 15. The Speaking Abject: The impossible possible world of realized Empire -- Conclusion: Reading difference -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Bibliography: p. 236-249.

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

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