Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination

by Ann Laura Stoler

Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Ann Laura Stoler's introduction is a manifesto, a compelling call for postcolonial studies to expand its analytical scope to address the toxic but less perceptible corrosions and violent accruals of colonial aftermaths, as well as their durable traces on the material environment and people's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082235361X
• ISBN13: 9780822353614
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"