Overview

This text brings together critical voices to respond to the questions raised by the concept of the ""post-colonial"". The contributors move from imperial histories to today's hybrid metropolitan youth cultures, from African-American writings to uneasy mixtures of nationalisms and religion in the post-colonial city. Together they expolore the diverse cultures and disparate narratives which are shaping an increasingly volatile global future. In confronting the concept and condition of postcoloniality, the contributors move beyond overworked metaphors of integration, the melting pot and multiculturalism. Instead, they represent a plurality of voices, populations and histories coming from ""elsewhere"" to disrupt the Euro-American sense of where the ""centre"" lies. The collection includes a new piece of fiction by Hanif Kureishi.

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Author:   Iain Chambers ,  Lidia Curti
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9780415108584

ISBN 10:   0415108586
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   21 December 1995
Recommended Age:   From 17 to 18 years
Audience:   Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Critical Landscapes; Chapter 1 The Undone Interval, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Annamaria Morelli; Chapter 2 Route Work: The Black Atlantic and the Politics of Exile, Paul Gilroy; Chapter 3 Different, Youthful, Subjectivities, Angela McRobbie; Chapter 4 Signs of Silence, Lines of Listening, Iain Chambers; Part 2 Post-Colonial Time; Chapter 5 Histories, Empires and the Post-Colonial Moment, Catherine Hall; Chapter 6 African Cities, Historical Memory and Street Buzz, Alessandro Triulzi; Chapter 7 Irishness – Feminist and Post-Colonial, Wanda Balzano; Chapter 8 Ethnic Conflict in Post-Colonial India, Amedeo Maiello; Chapter 9 Black Cultures in Difference, Marie Hélène Laforest; Part 3 Frontier Journeys: The Space of Interrogation; Chapter 10 Between Two Shores, Lidia Curti; Chapter 11 Defining Forces: ‘Race’, Gender and Memories of Empire, Vron Ware; Chapter 12 Identity and Alterity in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe, Laura Di Michele; Chapter 13 The Space of Culture, The Power of Space, Lawrence Grossberg; Chapter 14 Writers from Elsewhere, Stefano Manferlotti; Part 4 Whose World, Whose Home?; Chapter 15 Unpacking my Library … Again, Homi K. Bhabha; Chapter 16 Mass Exoticisms, Clara Gallini; Chapter 17 Some Troubled Homecomings, Demetrio Yocum; Chapter 18 A Tribe Called Europe, Marina De Chiara; Chapter 19 My Son the Fanatic, Hanif Kureishi; Chapter 20 When was ‘The Post-Colonial’? Thinking at the Limit, Stuart Hall;

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Iain Chambers and Lidia Curti both teach at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples.

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