Leela Gandhi

Postcolonial Theory

A Critical Introduction: Second Edition

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Produktbeschreibung

Leela Gandhiâ s Postcolonial Theory is a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms and its intellectual context. The revised edition of this classic work reaffirms its status as a useful starting point for readers new to the field and a provocative account that opens up possibilities for debate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• second edition
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 139mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780231178396
• ISBN-10: 0231178395
• Artikelnr.: 52820015

Autorenporträt

Leela Gandhi is John Hawkes Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University. She is author of Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship (2006) and The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900-1955 (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
1. After Colonialism
2. Thinking Otherwise: A Brief Intellectual History
3. Postcolonialism and the New Humanities
4. Edward Said and His Critics
5. Postcolonialism and Feminism
6. Imagining Community: The Question of Nationalism
7. One World: The Vision of Postnationalism
8. Postcolonial Literatures
9. The Limits of Postcolonial Theory
Epilogue: If This Were a Manifesto for Postcolonial Thinking
Bibliography
Index