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Beginning postcolonialism / John Mcleod.
AUTOR:
John, McLeod
ISBN:
0719052092
0719052084
IDIOMA:
eng
PÁGINAS:
XII, 274
AÑO:
2000
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RESUMEN
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Designed for those studying postcolonialism for the first time, this is an introduction to the major areas of concern. It provides an overview of the emergence of postcolonialism as a discipline and examines many of its important critical writings. In particular, John McLeod demonstrates in practice how many of the ideas and concepts in the subject can be usefully applied when reading texts, as well as inviting students to develop their own views of postcolonialism.
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INDICE
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Introduction - beginning, postcolonialism?, a note on terminology.
Part 1 From "Commonwealth" to "postcolonial": colonialism and decolonization; the emergence of "Commonwealth literature"; theories of colonial discourses - Frantz Fanon and Edward Said; the turn to "theory" in the 1980s; the empire "writes back"; postcolonialism at the millennium; postcolonialism -definitions and dangers; selected reading on "what is postcolonialism?".
Part 2 Reading colonial discourses: reading and politics; reading "orientalism"; the shape of orientalism; stereotypes of the Orient; criticisms of "Orientalism"; "ambivalence" and "mimicry" in colonial discourses; "stop and think"; colonial discourses and Rudyard Kipling - reading "The Overland Mail".
Part 3 Nationalist representations: imagining the nation - forging tradition and history; "stop and think"; national space and time; national liberation vs. imperial domination; negritude; "stop and think"; Frantz Fanon and national culture; nationalism and literature; constructing national consciousness -Ngugi wa Thiongo's "A Grain of Wheat"
Part 4 The nation in question: the disenchantment with nationalism; nationalism - a derivative discourse?; "stop and think"; nationalism, representation and the elite; nationalism, "race" and ethnicity; "stop and think"; nationalism, gender and sexuality; the nation and its margins; "stop and think"; the problems of using English; "stop and think"; the nation in question - Chinua Achebe's "Anthills of the Savannah"; "stop and think".
Part 5 Re-reading and re-writing English literature: colonialism and the teaching of English; colonial texts; "stop and think"; reading literature "contrapuntally"; "stop and think"; re-reading Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"; "stop and think"; "Jane Eyre" - a postcolonial text?; "stop and think"; postcolonial rewritings - Jean Rhys, "Wide Sargasso Sea"; re-writings - possibilities and problems; "stop and think".
Part 6 Postcolonialism and feminism: some definitions; the "double colonization" of women; "stop and think"; postcolonial critiques of "first world" feminism; "stop and think"; can the subaltern speak?; "going a piece of the way" - creative dialogues in postcolonial feminism; representing women in Sally Morgan's "My Place".
Part 7 Diaspora identities: what is a "diaspora"?; living "in-between" - from "roots" to
"routes"; hybrid identities at the "in-between"; "stop and think"; new ethnicities; "stop and think"; cultural diversity, cultural difference and the "Black Atlantic"; moving pictures - Beryl Gilroy's "Boy-Sandwich". Part 8 Postcolonialism and the critics: problematizing
postcolonialism; from "Commonwealth" to "postcolonial" and back again?;
postcolonialism and neo-colonialism; so where do we go from here?; further reading.
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