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" Posts and pasts : "
Alfred J. López.
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BL
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702614
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b524803
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López, Alfred J.,1962-
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Posts and pasts : : a theory of postcolonialism /\ Alfred J. López.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, c2001.
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SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies
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xi, 274 p. ;; 24 cm.
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0791449939 (alk. paper)
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: 0791449947 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780791449936 (alk. paper)
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: 9780791449943 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index.
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| Contents
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Posts and pasts -- Chapter 1: "The other!the other!": / Conrad, Wilson Harris, and the postcolonial "threshold of capacity" -- Chapter 2: Specters of the nation: resistance, criollismo, and the ambivalence of the "Neo-" -- Chapter 3: Whiteness and the colonial unconscious -- Chapter 4: "Toward a new humanism ... ": / Fanon, Hegel, and the crisis of mastery -- Chapter 5: Reason, "the native," and desire: a theory of "magical realism."
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"In Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism, Alfred J. Lopez argues for a formulation of postcolonial studies which diverges in three significant ways from current academic and institutional practices: 1) the postcolonial as diasporic, constituted by a series of dispersed and irregular criticisms not at all containable within a single set of parameters, whether historical, geographical, or socioeconomic; 2) the postcolonial as a distinct ontological moment in the life of a nation or people, in which it conceives itself as doubly haunted - on the one hand by the "memory in advance" of a collective national future and on the other by its colonial past; and 3) the postcolonial as a distinct phenomenological moment, a radical break in the history of a relation between lords and bonds-women and -men."--BOOK JACKET.
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Criticism-- History-- 20th century.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism.
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Developing countries, Literatures, History and criticism, Theory, etc.
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PN98.P62L67 2001
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