The Economics of Empire (eBook, PDF)

Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial Encounter
Redaktion: Fadem, Maureen E. Ruprecht; O'Sullivan, Michael

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Economics of Empire: Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial Encounter is a multi-disciplinary intervention into postcolonial theory that constructs and theorizes a political economy of empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000293814
• Artikelnr.: 60713280

Autorenporträt

Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem is Associate Professor of English at The City University of New York/Kingsborough, USA. She also teaches at Drew University, USA, and at The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA. Michael O'Sullivan is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has taught on literature and language in universities in Ireland, the UK, the USA, Japan, and Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Postcolonial Studies and the History of Capital Preface: The
Economics of Empire: Bridging Postcolonial Studies Forward 1.
Introduction-Empire's License: Structural Thievery and the Political Life
of Appropriated Capital 2. Decolonizing Capital: Indian Political Economy
in the Shadow of Empire 3. Criminal Cities: Economics and Empire in Belfast
and Johannesburg 4. Interrogating Legal World-Making Through Genre: Alexis
Wright's The Swan Book and Colonial Reparations 5. Trading in Women's
"Troubles": Fertility Control and Postcolonial Exchanges in Irish History
6. Contemporary Plantation Narratives and the Postcolonial Memory of
Capitalism 7. Waste Lands and Preserves: Olive Schreiner's Ecological
Allegories and Colonial Zimbabwe 8. Unearthing Land and Labor Disputes in
Tunisia: An Uneven and Combined Development Approach to Tribal/Management
Councils 9. Derailing the Rail: Indian-Kenyan Solidarity in Contemporary
Anglophone Fiction 10. Coloniality, Knowledge Production, and Racialized
Socio-economic Inequality in South Africa 11. Devalued Knowledge: Colonized
Post-Socialism 12. Hong Kong and the Sinocentric Afterlife of an Anglophone
Postcolonial Discourse