Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics

by Bart J. Moore-Gilbert

Book Overview

Much controversy has recently come to surround the status and value of postcolonial modes of cultural analysis. Postcolonial theory has been challenged on several fronts: on its interdisciplinary competence, on the politics of its institutional location, and its implicit will to have power over other kinds of postcolonial analysis, many of which have been established for much longer than postcolonial theory itself. The ensuing debate has often become...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859840345
• ISBN13: 9781859840344
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"