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Postcolonial Theory - Contexts, Practices, Politics (Paperback)
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Postcolonial Theory - Contexts, Practices, Politics (Paperback)
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Much controversy has recently come to surround the status and value
of postcolonial modes of cultural analysis. Postcolonial theory has
been challenged on several fronts: on its interdisciplinary
competence, on the politics of its institutional location, and its
implicit will to have power over other kinds of postcolonial
analysis, many of which have been established for much longer than
postcolonial theory itself. The ensuing debate has often become so
heated, even personalized, that the issues at stake have been
obscured. In what is the most comprehensive and accessible survey
of the field to date, Bart Moore-Gilbert systematically examines
the objections that have been raised against postcolonial theory,
revealing the simplifications and exaggerations on both sides of
the argument. He provides a detailed institutional history of the
ways in which the relationship between culture and colonialism was
traditionally studied in the West, then traces the emergence of
alternative forms of postcolonial analysis of such questions. He
gives an extremely careful presentation of the complex and elusive
work of the three principal representatives of postcolonial theory,
Gayatri Spivak, Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, and considers the
criticisms they have faced, from an alleged Eurocentrism to an
obfuscatory prose style. And he assesses the overlaps and
differences between postcolonial theory and other forms of
postcolonial criticism. Finally he considers the ways in which
postcolonial analysis may be connected with different histories of
oppression, and looks at how such a heterogeneous theory can be
reconciled with political questions of solidarity and alliance in
the continuing struggle for cultural decolonization.
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