The Postcolonial Challenge: Towards Alternative WorldsSAGE, 24.01.2006 - 224 Seiten An outstanding contribution to our understanding of postcolonial theory and its engagement with significant changes within the contemporary world. Couze Venn forces us to rethink the very parameters of the post-colonial and suggests a new political economy for post-modern times. This critical engagement opens up the possibility to reimagine the world from its current narrow European strictures to a world full of alternative possibilities and modernities... This is a timely and ground breaking book that contributes to a much needed reconceptualisation of the postcolony. - Professor Pal Ahluwalia, Goldsmiths, University of London What is postcolonial studies? What are its achievements, strengths and weaknesses? This ground breaking book offers an essential guide to one of the most important issues of our time, with special emphasis on neo-liberalism within world poverty and the ′third world′. It clarifies:
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... Empire. But it does not follow that one therefore knows what is to be done, for it is not a matter of a simple option between existing parties, for instance, between the kind of globalization from above advocated by the Davos World ...
... Empire. But it does not follow that one therefore knows what is to be done, for it is not a matter of a simple option between existing parties, for instance, between the kind of globalization from above advocated by the Davos World ...
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... empires - for example, the Roman, the Chinese, Ottoman, Mughal Empires - and the mutations in religions, whether concerning the Semitic or Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity - or the variation in Buddhism in its ...
... empires - for example, the Roman, the Chinese, Ottoman, Mughal Empires - and the mutations in religions, whether concerning the Semitic or Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity - or the variation in Buddhism in its ...
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... empire that located Mauritius as strategic port and regulated trade. The lived dimension of these changes is the dimension in which the intertwining of modernity, capitalism, colonialism in the midst of vernacular cultures is most ...
... empire that located Mauritius as strategic port and regulated trade. The lived dimension of these changes is the dimension in which the intertwining of modernity, capitalism, colonialism in the midst of vernacular cultures is most ...
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... empire was relatively occluded in representations of the English, say, in the novel, its centrality for the whole culture was in no doubt. Postcolonial re-readings of these representations have demonstrated this symptomati- cally ...
... empire was relatively occluded in representations of the English, say, in the novel, its centrality for the whole culture was in no doubt. Postcolonial re-readings of these representations have demonstrated this symptomati- cally ...
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... Empire, administered as a colonial country, without opening up the term to a vagueness that disarms analysis or without introducing asymmetries that undermine the standpoint of postcoloniality? Or, does the inclusion of Canada as a ...
... Empire, administered as a colonial country, without opening up the term to a vagueness that disarms analysis or without introducing asymmetries that undermine the standpoint of postcoloniality? Or, does the inclusion of Canada as a ...
Inhalt
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Question of identity and agency | 77 |
Towards a postcolonial political economy | 122 |
Glossary | 175 |
Bibliography | 198 |
Index | 211 |
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