TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tiffin,Chris
AU  - Lawson,Alan
TI  - De-scribing empire: post-colonialism and textuality 
SN  - 0415105471
U1  - 808 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Imperialism in literature
KW  - Literature and society
N1  - 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
ER  -