Postcolonizing the Commonwealth :
Postcolonizing the Commonwealth : studies in literature and culture /
edited by Rowland Smith.
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, �2000.
- 1 online resource (vi, 216 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Postcolonial/Commonwealth Studies in the Caribbean: Points of Difference / Proximities: From Asymptote to Zeugma / Looking in from "Beyond": Commonwealth Studies in French Universities / Climbing Mount Everest: Postcolonialism in the Culture of Ascent / Afrikaners, Africans and Afriquas: Metissage in Breyten Breytenbach's Return to Paradise / Inheritance in Question: The Magical Realist Mode in Afrikaans Fiction / Natal Women's Letters in the 1850s: Ellen McLeod, Eliza Feilden, Gender and "Second-World" Ambi/valence / Rural Women and African Resistance: Lauretta Ngcobo's Novel And They Didn't Die / Five Minutes of Silence: Voices of Iranian Feminists in the Postrevolutionary Age / FAS and Cultural Discourse: Who Speaks for Native Women? / Can Rohinton Mistry's Realism Rescue the Novel? / Dislocations of Culture: Unhousing and the Unhomely in Salman Rushdie's Shame / A Vision of Unity: Brathwaite, Ngugi, Rushdie and the Quest for Authenticity / Cowboy Songs, Indian Speeches and the Language of Poetry / Rowland Smith -- Edward Baugh -- Alan Lawson -- Jacqueline Bardolph -- Stephen Slemon -- Johan U. Jacobs -- Sheila Roberts -- Margaret J. Daymond -- Cherry Clayton -- Nima Naghibi -- Cheryl Suzack -- Laura Moss -- Susan Spearey -- Mac Fenwick -- J. Edward Chamberlin.
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Women and resistance in Iran; cowboy songs; fetal alcohol syndrome; the conquest of Everest; women settlers in Natal. What do these topics have in common? The study of what used to be called Commonwealth literature, or the new literatures, has by now come to be known as postcolonial study. This collection of essays investigates the status of postcolonial studies today. The contributors come from three generations: the pioneers who introduced study of the "new" literatures into university English departments, the next generation who refined and developed many of the theoretical positions embodied in postcolonial study, and the next, much younger, generation, who use the established practices of the discipline to investigate the application of this theory in a wide range of cultural contexts. Although the authors write from such different starting points, a surprisingly similar set of images, phrases and topics of concern emerge in their essays. They return constantly to issues of difference and similarity, the re-examination of categories that often appear to be too rigidly defined in current postcolonial practices, and to concepts of sharing: experience, ideas of home, and even the use of land.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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402376 CaOOCEL
00200625
Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.
Commonwealth literature (English)--Study and teaching (Higher)
Postcolonialism.
Postcolonialism--Study and teaching (Higher)
Litt�erature du Commonwealth (anglaise)--Histoire et critique.
Litt�erature du Commonwealth (anglaise)--�Etude et enseignement (Sup�erieur)
Postcolonialisme.
Postcolonialisme--�Etude et enseignement (Sup�erieur)
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Commonwealth literature (English)
Postcolonialism.
Postkoloniale Literatur
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Waterloo (Ontario, 1997)
PR9080 / .P575 2000eb
820.9/9171241
PR9080 / .P575 2000eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Postcolonial/Commonwealth Studies in the Caribbean: Points of Difference / Proximities: From Asymptote to Zeugma / Looking in from "Beyond": Commonwealth Studies in French Universities / Climbing Mount Everest: Postcolonialism in the Culture of Ascent / Afrikaners, Africans and Afriquas: Metissage in Breyten Breytenbach's Return to Paradise / Inheritance in Question: The Magical Realist Mode in Afrikaans Fiction / Natal Women's Letters in the 1850s: Ellen McLeod, Eliza Feilden, Gender and "Second-World" Ambi/valence / Rural Women and African Resistance: Lauretta Ngcobo's Novel And They Didn't Die / Five Minutes of Silence: Voices of Iranian Feminists in the Postrevolutionary Age / FAS and Cultural Discourse: Who Speaks for Native Women? / Can Rohinton Mistry's Realism Rescue the Novel? / Dislocations of Culture: Unhousing and the Unhomely in Salman Rushdie's Shame / A Vision of Unity: Brathwaite, Ngugi, Rushdie and the Quest for Authenticity / Cowboy Songs, Indian Speeches and the Language of Poetry / Rowland Smith -- Edward Baugh -- Alan Lawson -- Jacqueline Bardolph -- Stephen Slemon -- Johan U. Jacobs -- Sheila Roberts -- Margaret J. Daymond -- Cherry Clayton -- Nima Naghibi -- Cheryl Suzack -- Laura Moss -- Susan Spearey -- Mac Fenwick -- J. Edward Chamberlin.
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Women and resistance in Iran; cowboy songs; fetal alcohol syndrome; the conquest of Everest; women settlers in Natal. What do these topics have in common? The study of what used to be called Commonwealth literature, or the new literatures, has by now come to be known as postcolonial study. This collection of essays investigates the status of postcolonial studies today. The contributors come from three generations: the pioneers who introduced study of the "new" literatures into university English departments, the next generation who refined and developed many of the theoretical positions embodied in postcolonial study, and the next, much younger, generation, who use the established practices of the discipline to investigate the application of this theory in a wide range of cultural contexts. Although the authors write from such different starting points, a surprisingly similar set of images, phrases and topics of concern emerge in their essays. They return constantly to issues of difference and similarity, the re-examination of categories that often appear to be too rigidly defined in current postcolonial practices, and to concepts of sharing: experience, ideas of home, and even the use of land.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
0585322392 9780585322391 088920358X 9780889203587 0889203520 9780889203525 1280925973 9781280925979 9780889206076 0889206074
9780889203587 9780889203525
402376 CaOOCEL
00200625
Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.
Commonwealth literature (English)--Study and teaching (Higher)
Postcolonialism.
Postcolonialism--Study and teaching (Higher)
Litt�erature du Commonwealth (anglaise)--Histoire et critique.
Litt�erature du Commonwealth (anglaise)--�Etude et enseignement (Sup�erieur)
Postcolonialisme.
Postcolonialisme--�Etude et enseignement (Sup�erieur)
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Commonwealth literature (English)
Postcolonialism.
Postkoloniale Literatur
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Waterloo (Ontario, 1997)
PR9080 / .P575 2000eb
820.9/9171241
PR9080 / .P575 2000eb