Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction
Author | : Chidi Okonkwo |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1999 |
ISBN-10 | : 0312220685 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780312220686 |
Rating | : 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction challenges the prevailing western-originated concepts of postcoloniality and postcolonial cultural/literary theory on the grounds that behind their fashionable emancipatory rhetoric, they actually submerge Third World anti-colonialist writing under Western strategic calculations for the post-cold war era. In place of the homogenizing approach which lumps together all the world's literature outside the male-authored texts of the major European powers, it introduces important distinctions between the literature of Europe's temporarily disadvantaged insiders, the imperial-outpost literatures of the European diaspora in the Americas and Australasia, and the decolonization literatures of third-world peoples and ethnic minorities which constitute the West's third-world underbellies."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved