Beginning Postcolonialism

Postcolonialism has become one of the most exciting, popular and stimulating fields of literary and cultural studies in recent years. Yet the variety of approaches, the range of debate and the critical vocabularies often used may make it challenging for new students to establish a firm foothold in this area. Beginning Postcolonialism is a vital resource for those taking undergraduate courses in postcolonial studies for the first time and has become an established international best-seller in the field. In this fully revised and updated second edition, John McLeod introduces the major areas of concern in a clear, accessible and organised fashion. He provides an overview of the emergence of postcolonialism as a discipline and closely examines its many established critical approaches while also exploring important recent initiatives in the field. In particular, Beginning Postcolonialism demonstrates how many key postcolonial ideas and concepts can be effectively applied when reading texts and enables students to develop their own independent thinking about the possibilities and pitfalls of postcolonial critique.

ISBN 071907858X   Weight (grammes) 376 ISBN13 9780719078583 (What's this?)   Published in Manchester Publisher Manchester University Press   Series title Beginnings Imprint Manchester University Press   Previous ISBN 9780719052095 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 28 Jun 2010   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 820.99171241   Spine width (mm) 28 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education Pages 304

		Acknowledgements
		Preface to the second edition
		Introduction		1
		Beginning		1
		Postcolonialism?		2
		A note on terminology: or, on not using the hyphen		5
1		From áCommonwealth' to ápostcolonial'		7
		Introduction		7
		Colonialism and decolonisation		7
		The emergence of áCommonwealth literature'		12
		Theories of colonial discourses: Frantz Fanon and Edward Said		19
		The turn to átheory' in the 1980s		26
		The Empire áwrites back'		28
		Into the twenty-first century		32
		áPostcolonialism': definitions and dangers		38
		Selected reading		41
2		Reading colonial discourses		44
		Ideology, interpellation, discourse		44
		Reading Orientalism discourses		44
		Ideology, interpellation, discourse		44
		Reading Orientalism		47
		The shape of Orientalism		49
1		Orientalism constructs binary oppositions		49
2		Orientalism is a Western fantasy		50
3		Orientalism is institutional		50
4		Orientalism is literary and creative		51
5		Orientalism is legitimating and self-perpetuating		51
6		There is a distinction between álatent' and ámanifest' Orientalism		51
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