Empire, Colony, Postcolony
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-9340-5 (ISBN)
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The first book to introduce the main historical and cultural parameters of the different categories of empire, colony, postcolony, nation, and globalization and the ways in which they are analyzed today
Explains in clear and accessible language the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory as well as providing a postcolonial perspective on the formations of the contemporary world
Written by an acknowledged expert on postcolonialism
Robert JC Young, FBA, is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. His writing ranges across the fields of cultural and political history, literature, philosophy, photography, psychoanalysis and translation studies, with a particular focus on colonial history and postcolonial theory. His publications include White Mythologies: Writing History and the West (1990), Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Culture, Theory and Race (1995), Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (Wiley, 2001), Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (2003), and The Idea of English Ethnicity (Wiley, 2008). He is the editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
Acknowledgments viii 1 Introduction 1
2 Empire 7
3 Colony 27
4 Slavery and Race 42
5 Colonialism and Imperialism 52
6 Nation 66
7 Nationalism 77
8 Anticolonialism 85
9 Decolonization 103
10 Neo]colonialism, Globalization, Planetarity 117
11 Postcolony 135
12 Postcolonialism 149
References 178
Name Index 191
Subject Index 195
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.8.2015 |
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Verlagsort | Hoboken |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 160 x 236 mm |
Gewicht | 422 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4051-9340-9 / 1405193409 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4051-9340-5 / 9781405193405 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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