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Contemporary Postcolonial Theory : A Reader by Padmini Mongia (1996, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHachette Learning
ISBN-100340652888
ISBN-139780340652886
eBay Product ID (ePID)341357
Product Key Features
Number of Pages416 Pages
Publication NameContemporary Postcolonial Theory : a Reader
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1996
SubjectPopular Culture, General, Semiotics & Theory, Modern / General, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Subjects & Themes / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorPadmini Mongia
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight21.7 Oz
Item Length6.1 in
Item Width9.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN96-016143
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal809/.04
SynopsisThere is a crisis in contemporary postcolonial theory: while an enormous body of challenging research has been produced under its auspices, severely critical questions about the validity and usefulness of this theory have also been raised. This Reader is positioned at the juncture where it can address these contestations. It makes available some of the "classics" of the field, engages with the issues raised by contemporary practitioners, and offers several of the arguments that strongly critique postcolonial theory., There is a crisis in contemporary postcolonial theory: while an enormous body of challenging research has been produced under its auspices, severely critical questions about the validity and usefulness of this theory have also been raised. This Reader is positioned at the juncture where it can address these contestations. It makes available some of the 'classics' of the field; engages with the issues raised by contemporary practitioners; but also offers several of the arguments that strongly critique postcolonial theory. Although postcolonial theory purports to be inter-disciplinary and frequently anti-foundationalist, traces of disciplinary formations and linearity have continued to haunt its articulations. This Reader, on the other hand, offers a uniquely inter-disciplinary mapping. It is concerned with three main areas: definitional problems and contests including the current challenges to postcolonial theory; the 'disciplining of knowledge', where the multiple resonances of the word 'disciplining' are all engaged; and the location of practice where the relations between intellectual practice and historical conditions are explored. Finally, since the guiding principle of this Reader is simultaneous attention to the enabling and constraining mechanisms of historical realities and institutional practices, the commentary problematizes the writing of histories, the formations of canons, and indeed the production of Readers.
LC Classification NumberPN771.C595 1996
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