Leela Gandhi

Postcolonial Theory (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Introduction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A provocative and exemplary introduction to the field of postcolonial studies. Leela Gandhi surveys the entire field of postcolonial studies and outlines the connections beween postcolonial theory and poststructuralism, postmodernism, marxism and feminism. She assesses the contribution of major theorists such as Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha as well as highlighting postcolonialism's relationship to earlier thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Mahatma Gandhi. Both a useful starting point for new readers and an incisive account for lecturers, this book will open up debate still further.* The first student book to map out the philosophical and intellectual context of postcolonial theory* Explains for students the work of major theorists such as Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474468312
• Artikelnr.: 72421355

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