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This book offers far more than an up-to-date audit of postcolonial theory and theorists. It is a critical engagement with the constitutive figures and forms of postcolonial theory.

Only 1 left in stock (more on the way). This book offers far more than an up-to-date audit of postcolonial theory and theorists. It is at times fearless, at times sentimental, at times witty, and always incisive as it outlines what has gone before in postcolonial theory, as well as pointing to the scope of that 'counter-narrative' which lies beyond.

Postcolonial theory: a critical introduction Bibliography. ISBN 1 86448 431 4. 1. Postcolonialism. Nowhere is this book motivated by a desire for postcolonial revenge

Postcolonial theory: a critical introduction Bibliography. Nowhere is this book motivated by a desire for postcolonial revenge. It does not seek finally to marginalise the West-to render it an excluded and uneasy eavesdropper to cryptic exchanges between, for instance, Africa and India. Its mani- festo, if any, is this: that postcolonialism diversify its mode of address and learn to speak more adequately to the world which it speaks for.

Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. Cite this publication. Purdue University Fort Wayne. Theory: A Critical Introduction. New York: Co-. lumbia.

Postcolonial Theory is a ground-breaking critical introduction to the burgeoning field of postcolonial studies. Leela Gandhi is the first to clearly map out this field in terms of its wider philosophical and intellectual context, drawing important connections between postcolonial theory and poststructuralism, postmodernism, marxism and feminism.

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Published twenty years ago, Leela Gandhi’s Postcolonial Theory was a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms that set its intellectual context alongside poststructuralism, postmodernism, Marxism, and feminism

Published twenty years ago, Leela Gandhi’s Postcolonial Theory was a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms that set its intellectual context alongside poststructuralism, postmodernism, Marxism, and feminism. Gandhi examined the contributions of major thinkers such as Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and the subaltern historians

To the extent that Western scholars were aware of contemporary Orientals or Oriental movements of thought and culture, these were perceived either as silent shadows to be animated by the Orientalist, brought into reality by them, or as a kind of cultural and international proletariat useful for the Orientalist's grander interpretive activity.

Postcolonial Theory is a ground-breaking critical introduction to the burgeoing field of postcolonial studies

Postcolonial Theory is a ground-breaking critical introduction to the burgeoing field of postcolonial studies. She assesses the contribution of major theorists such as Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha, and also points to postcolonialism's relationship to earlier thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Mahatma Gandhi.

Postcolonial Theory: An Introduction. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Hook’s book is a very good introduction to the relationship between postcolonial theory and psychology (and psychoanalysis)

Postcolonial Theory: An Introduction. E-mail Citation . Gandhi’s introductory text to postcolonial theory is useful for undergraduates, but it is also a helpful resource for anyone working within the field at any stage. Hook’s book is a very good introduction to the relationship between postcolonial theory and psychology (and psychoanalysis). Drawing on works by Homi Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, and others, Hook analyzes anticolonial, postcolonial, and critical race theory approaches to and critiques of psychology.

Home Browse Books Book details, Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. In the last decade postcolonialism has taken its place with theories such as poststructuralism, psychoanalysis and feminism as a major critical discourse in the humanities

Home Browse Books Book details, Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. In the last decade postcolonialism has taken its place with theories such as poststructuralism, psychoanalysis and feminism as a major critical discourse in the humanities. As a consequence of its diverse and interdisciplinary usage, this body of thought has generated an enormous corpus of specialised academic writing.