On Post-Colonial Futures: Transformations of a Colonial Culture

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A&C Black, 01‏/09‏/2001 - 178 من الصفحات
In this groundbreaking work, Bill Ashcroft extends the arguments posed in The Empire Writes Back to investigate the transformative effects of postcolonial resistance and the continuing relevance of colonial struggle. He demonstrates the remarkable capacity for change and adaptation emanating from postcolonial cultures both in everyday life and in the intellectual spheres of literature, history and philosophy. The transformations of postcolonial literary study have not been limited to a simple rewriting of the canon but have also affected the ways in which all literature can be read and have led to a more profound understanding of the network of cultural practices that influence creative writing.

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Introduction
1
The future of English
7
Latin America and postcolonial transformation
22
Primitive and wingless the colonial subject as child
36
Childhood and possibility David Maloufs An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon
54
Sweet futures sugar and colonialism
67
Calibans language
81
Fractured paradigms the fragility of discourse
103
Postcolonial excess and colonial transformation
116
A prophetic vision of the past history and allegory in Peter Careys Oscar and Lucinda
128
Irony allegory and empire J M Coetzees Waiting for the Barbarians and In the Heart of the Country
140
References
159
Index
167
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Bill Ashcroft is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

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