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This innovative and lively book is quite unlike any other introduction to postcolonialism. Robert Young examines the political, social, and cultural after-effects of decolonization by presenting situations, experiences, and testimony rather than going through the theory at an abstract level. He situates the debate in a wide cultural context, discussing its importance as an historical condition, with examples such as the status of aboriginal people, of those dispossessed from their land, Algerian rai music, postcolonial feminism, and global social and ecological movements. Above all, Young argues, postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, and so in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past.
| ISBN | 0192801821 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780192801821
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 168 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Imprint | Oxford University Press | | Series ISSN | 98 | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Very Short Introductions | | Publication date | 26 Jun 2003 | | Height (mm) | 174 | | Library of Congress | JV51.Y67 2 | | Width (mm) | 111 | | DEWEY | 325.3 | | Spine width (mm) | 11 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 192 | |
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| | | Acknowledgements | | | | | | List of Illustrations | | | | | | Introduction: Montage | | 1 | | 1 | | Subaltern knowledge | | 9 | | 2 | | History and power, from below and above | | 26 | | 3 | | Space and land | | 45 | | 4 | | Hybridity | | 69 | | 5 | | Postcolonial feminism | | 93 | | 6 | | Globalization from a postcolonial perspective | | 121 | | 7 | | Translation | | 138 | | | | References | | 149 | | | | Further reading | | 159 | | | | Index | | 171 |
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