Title:
De-scribing empire : post-colonialism and textuality / edited by Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson.
Author:
Tiffin, Chris. editor.
Lawson, Alan, 1948- joint editor.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references(p. 236-249)and index(p. 250-254).
Introduction : The textuality of empire / Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson -- The scramble for post-colonialism / Stephen Slemon -- Excess : post-colonialism and the verandahs of meaning / Bill Ashcroft -- Some problems of response to empire in settler post-colonial societies / Chris Prentice -- Theorizing racism / Terry Collits -- The myth of authenticity : representation, discourse and social practice / Gareth Griffiths -- Breyten Breytenbach and the censor / J.M. Coetzee -- De-scribing orality : performance and the recuperation of voice / Helen Gilbert -- Inscribing the emptiness : cartography, exploration an dthe construction of Australia / Simon Ryan -- The unfinished Commonwealth : boundaries of civility in popular Australian fiction of the first Commonwealth decade / Robert Dixon -- "The softest disorder" : representing cultural indeterminacy / Fiona Giles -- "The only free people in the Empire" : gender difference in colonial discourse / Bridget Orr -- De-scribing The Water-babies : 'the child' in post-colonial theory / Jo-Ann Wallace -- Modernity, voice, and window-breaking : Jean Rhys's 'Let them call it jazz' / Sue Thomas -- Speaking the unspeakable : London, Cambridge and the Caribbean / Paul Sharrad -- The speaking abject : the impossible world of realized empire / Howard McNaughton -- Conclusion : Reading difference / Alan Lawson and Chris Tiffin.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Publication Place:
London ; New York :
ISBN:
0415105463
0415105471 (pbk.)
9780415105477 (pbk.)
Subject:
Politics and literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Literature and society.
Politique et littérature.
Littérature et société.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
Contents:
Introduction : The textuality of empire / Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson -- The scramble for post-colonialism / Stephen Slemon -- Excess : post-colonialism and the verandahs of meaning / Bill Ashcroft -- Some problems of response to empire in settler post-colonial societies / Chris Prentice -- Theorizing racism / Terry Collits -- The myth of authenticity : representation, discourse and social practice / Gareth Griffiths -- Breyten Breytenbach and the censor / J.M. Coetzee -- De-scribing orality : performance and the recuperation of voice / Helen Gilbert -- Inscribing the emptiness : cartography, exploration an dthe construction of Australia / Simon Ryan -- The unfinished Commonwealth : boundaries of civility in popular Australian fiction of the first Commonwealth decade / Robert Dixon -- "The softest disorder" : representing cultural indeterminacy / Fiona Giles -- "The only free people in the Empire" : gender difference in colonial discourse / Bridget Orr -- De-scribing The Water-babies : 'the child' in post-colonial theory / Jo-Ann Wallace -- Modernity, voice, and window-breaking : Jean Rhys's 'Let them call it jazz' / Sue Thomas -- Speaking the unspeakable : London, Cambridge and the Caribbean / Paul Sharrad -- The speaking abject : the impossible world of realized empire / Howard McNaughton -- Conclusion : Reading difference / Alan Lawson and Chris Tiffin.
Physical Description:
xii, 254 p. : ill. ;
Electronic Location:
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0648/93044378-d.html
Publication Date:
1994.
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