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On post-colonial futures : transformations of colonial culture

This work proposes a radical view of the influence that colonized societies have had on their former colonizers. It investigates the transformative effects of post-colonial resistance and the continuing relevance of colonial struggle.
Print Book, English, 2001
Continuum, London, 2001
170 pages ; 24 cm.
9780826452252, 9780826452269, 0826452256, 0826452264
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Childhood and possibility: David Malouf's An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon
Sweet futures: sugar and colonialism
Caliban's language
Fractured paradigms: the fragility of discourse
A prophetic vision of the past: history and allegory in Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda
Irony, allegory and empire: J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and In the Heart of the Country