1st Edition
Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power Empire�s Individuals
By Daniel F. Silva
Copyright 2016
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book brings forth a new contribution to the study of imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial power. While recent decades of theoretical reflections on imperialism have yielded important understandings of how the West has repeatedly reconsolidated its power, this book seeks to grasp the complex... Read more
Introduction 1. Imperial Interpellations: Signifying the West’s Scene of Writing 2. In the Name-of-the-Father: Imperial Mastery, Paternity, and Settlement 3. Signifying Bodies: Slavery and the Writing of Western Nationhood in Postcolonial Americas 4. Postcolonial Modernity and the Fantasies of Universality 5. Meaning in Movement: Empire, Postcoloniality and Late Capitalism Conclusion
Biography
Daniel F. Silva is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at Middlebury College, USA.
