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Decolonization agonistics in postcolonial fiction
- Title
- Decolonization agonistics in postcolonial fiction / Chidi Okonkwo.
- Author
- Okonkwo, Chidi, 1952-
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press; London : Macmillan, 1999.
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- Description
- xiv, 236 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction challenges the prevailing western-originated concepts of postcoloniality and postcolonial cultural/literary theory on the grounds that behind their fashionable emancipatory rhetoric, they actually submerge Third World anti-colonialist writing under Western strategic calculations for the post-cold war era.
- In place of the homogenizing approach which lumps together all the world's literature outside the male-authored texts of the major European powers, it introduces important distinctions between the literature of Europe's temporarily disadvantaged insiders, the imperial-outpost literatures of the European diaspora in the Americas and Australasia, and the decolonization literatures of third-world peoples and ethnic minorities which constitute the West's third-world underbellies.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Crisis and Politics in Postcolonial Discourse -- 2. The Politics of Form: Ideology, Form and Technique -- 3. The Agonistic of Tongues -- 4. Cultural Affirmation and Resistance -- 5. Casualties of Freedom -- The Novel as Cosmography.
- ISBN
- 0312220685 (cloth)
- 0333638697
- LCCN
- 98053052
- OCLC
- 40460049
- ocm40460049
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries