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Postcolonialism:

An Historical Introduction
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Wiley, Jul 16, 2001 - Literary Criticism - 512 pages
This key new introduction, by one of the leading exponents in the field, explains in clear and accessible language the historical and theoretical origins of post-colonial theory. Acknowledging that post-colonial theory draws on a wide, often contested, range of theory from different fields, Young analyzes the concepts and issues involved, explains the meaning of key terms, and interprets the work of some of the major writers concerned, to provide an ideal introductory guide for those undergraduates or academics coming to post-colonial theory and criticism for the first time.

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In the wake of the collapse of (formal) empire during the 1950s through to the 1970s we saw also a weakening of the cultural power of the old imperial centres - the Euro-American North Atlantic nexus ... Read full review

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A little heavy on the hero-worship, but otherwise a terrific example of scholars re-situating Marx (and Gramsci) into the realm of anti-colonial thought (and, in turn, anti-colonialism as anti ... Read full review

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About the author (2001)


Robert J. C. Young is Professor of English and Critical Theory at Oxford University and a fellow of Wadham College. He is the author of White Mythologies: Writing History and the West (1990), Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture, and Race (1995), and Torn Halves: Political Conflict in Literary and Cultural Theory (1996). Robert Young is also the General Editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

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