Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism (Suny Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies) - Couverture souple

Lopez, Alfred J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791449947 ISBN 13 : 9780791449943

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2001

Synopsis

In Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism, Alfred J. Lopez argues for a formulation of postcolonial studies which diverges in three significant ways from current academic and institutional practices: 1) the postcolonial as diasporic, constituted by a series of dispersed and irregular criticisms not at all containable within a single set of parameters, whether historical, geographical, or socioeconomic; 2) the postcolonial as a distinct ontological moment in the life of a nation or people, in which it conceives itself as doubly haunted--on the one hand by the "memory in advance" of a collective national future and on the other by its colonial past; and 3) the postcolonial as a distinct phenomenological moment, a radical break in the history of a relation between lords and bonds-women and -men.

Going further than previous studies to address the postcolonial as a diasporic body of texts and discourses, it looks at a remarkable variety of writers—Joseph Conrad, Wilson Harris, Jose Marti, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Michelle Cliff, J. M. Coetzee, Franz Fanon, Gabriel Marcia Marquez, and Salman Rushdie.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alfred J. Lopez is Assistant Professor of English at Florida International University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791449947
• ISBN 13: 9780791449943
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 274
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• Personne responsable: non disponible