Gaurav Desai

Subject to Colonialism

African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Gaurav Desai has adopted in this study an original and productive approach to postcolonial literature by situating the discursive practices generated by the colonial encounter in a more comprehensive perspective than is usually offered in studies of this kind."--F. Abiola Irele, Ohio State University

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780822326359
• ISBN-10: 0822326353
• Artikelnr.: 42992154

Autorenporträt

Gaurav Desai is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Program of African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Dangerous Supplements
1. “Race,” Rationality, and the Pedagogical Imperative
2. Dangerous Liaisons? Frustrated Radicals, Master Professionals
3. Colonial Self-Fashioning and the Production of History
Coda
Bibliography
Index