Daniel F Silva

Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power

Empire's Individuals

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This bookbrings forth a new contribution to the study of imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781138906297
• ISBN-10: 1138906298
• Artikelnr.: 42801783

Autorenporträt

Daniel F. Silva is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at Middlebury College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Imperial Interpellations: Signifying the West's Scene of
Writing 2. In the Name-of-the-Father: Imperial Mastery, Paternity, and
Settlement 3. Signifying Bodies: Slavery and the Writing of Western
Nationhood in Postcolonial Americas 4. Postcolonial Modernity and the
Fantasies of Universality 5. Meaning in Movement: Empire, Postcoloniality
and Late Capitalism Conclusion