252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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This powerful selection of essays proposes practices of reading and criticism to make the field of postcolonial studies more fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions. Benita Parry points to 'directions and dead ends' in the discipline she has helped to shape, with a first series of essays vigorously challenging colonial discourse theory and postcolonialism as we... Read more
Acknowledgements, Part One: Directions and dead ends in postcolonial studies, Part Two: The imperial imaginary, Coda, Notes, Index
Biography
Benita Parry is Honorary Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.
'Postcolonial Studies offers a solid and subtly argued theoretical framework within which a reconfigured critique of colonialism and its neo-imperial forms can develop.' - English: The Journal of the English Association
'Benita Parry's challenging essays form part of a vital critical legacy that is able to avoid the pitfalls of hermeneutic over-simplification in the hope of transcending the institutions and values of capitalism.' - Wasafiri
