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The issues of colonialism and imperialism have recently come to the
forefront of thinking in the humanities. Disciplines such as
history, literature and anthropology are taking stock of their
extensive and usually unacknowledged legacy of Empire. At the same
time, contemporary cultural theory has had to respond to
post-colonial pressure, with its different registers and agendas.
This volume ranges, geographically, from Brazil to India and South
Africa, from the Andes to the Caribbean and the USA. This range is
matched by a breadth of historical perspectives. Central to the
whole volume is a critique of the very idea of the "postcolonial"
itself. Contributors include Annie Coombes, Simon During, Peter
Hulme, Neil Lazarus, David Lloyd, Anne McClintock, Zita Nunes,
Benita Parry, Graham Pechey, Mary Louise Pratt, Renato Rosaldo and
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
First Published in 2002. Modes and categories inherited from the
past no longer seem to fit the reality experienced by a new
generation. 'New Accents' is intended as a positive response to the
initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series
will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to
stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define
literature and its academic study. The present selection of papers,
made from nearly two hundred published, represents in some measure
the diversity of the work at the eight Essex Sociology of
Literature Conferences.
First Published in 2002. Modes and categories inherited from the
past no longer seem to fit the reality experienced by a new
generation. 'New Accents' is intended as a positive response to the
initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series
will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to
stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define
literature and its academic study. The present selection of papers,
made from nearly two hundred published, represents in some measure
the diversity of the work at the eight Essex Sociology of
Literature Conferences.
In Cannibalism and the Colonial World, published in 1998, an
international team of specialists from a variety of disciplines -
anthropology, literature, art history - discusses the historical
and cultural significance of western fascination with the topic of
cannibalism. Addressing the image as it appears in a series of
texts - popular culture, film, literature, travel writing and
anthropology - the essays range from classical times to
contemporary critical discourse. Cannibalism and the Colonial World
examines western fascination with the figure of the cannibal and
how this has impacted on the representation of the non-western
world. This group of literary and anthropological scholars analyses
the way cannibalism continues to exist as a term within colonial
discourse and places the discussion of cannibalism in the context
of postcolonial and cultural studies.
In Cannibalism and the Colonial World, an international team of specialists from a variety of disciplines discusses the historical and cultural significance of Western fascination with the topic of cannibalism. Addressing the image as it appears in a series of texts--popular culture, film, literature, travel writing and anthropology--the essays range from classical times to contemporary critical discourse. This group of literary and anthropological scholars places the discussion of cannibalism in the context of postcolonial and cultural studies.
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