Postcolonial theory : a critical introduction /

Postcolonial Theory is a critical introduction to the burgeoning field of postcolonial studies. Leela Gandhi maps out this field in terms of its wider philosophical and intellectual context, drawing important connections between postcolonial theory and poststructuralism, postmodernism, marxism and f...

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Main Author: Gandhi, Leela, 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University press, 1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • After colonialism
  • Thinking otherwise : a brief intellectual history
  • Postcolonialism and the new humanities
  • Edward Said and his critics
  • Postcolonialism and feminism
  • Imagining community : the question of nationalism
  • One world : the vision of postnationalism
  • Postcolonial literatures
  • The limits of postcolonial theory.