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948556
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b702926
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De-scribing empire : : post-colonialism and textuality /\ edited by Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1994.
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1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) :: illustrations
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0203203682
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: 9780585451626
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: 9781134846061
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0415105463
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0415105471
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-249) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : The textuality of empire / Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson -- The scramble for post-colonialism / Stephen Slemon -- Excess : post-colonialism and the verandahs of meaning / Bill Ashcroft -- Some problems of response to empire in settler post-colonial societies / Chris Prentice -- Theorizing racism / Terry Collits -- The myth of authenticity : representation, discourse and social practice / Gareth Griffiths -- Breyten Breytenbach and the censor / J.M. Coetzee -- De-scribing orality : performance and the recuperation of voice / Helen Gilbert -- Inscribing the emptiness : cartography, exploration an dthe construction of Australia / Simon Ryan -- The unfinished Commonwealth : boundaries of civility in popular Australian fiction of the first Commonwealth decade / Robert Dixon -- "The softest disorder" : representing cultural indeterminacy / Fiona Giles -- "The only free people in the Empire" : gender difference in colonial discourse / Bridget Orr -- De-scribing The Water-babies : 'the child' in post-colonial theory / Jo-Ann Wallace -- Modernity, voice, and window-breaking : Jean Rhys's 'Let them call it jazz' / Sue Thomas -- Speaking the unspeakable : London, Cambridge and the Caribbean / Paul Sharrad -- The speaking abject : the impossible world of realized empire / Howard McNaughton -- Conclusion : Reading difference / Alan Lawson and Chris Tiffin.
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De-Scribing Empire is a stunning collection of first-class essays. Collectively they examine the formative role of books, writing and textuality in imperial control and the fashioning of colonial world-views. The volume as a whole puts forward strategies for understanding and neutralising that control, and as such is a major contribution to the field. It will be invaluable for students in post-colonialist criticism.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Literature and society.
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Politics and literature.
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Imperialism in literature.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Composition Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Rhetoric.
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Literature and society.
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Politics and literature.
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REFERENCE-- Writing Skills.
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| Dewey Classification
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808
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PN51.D426 1994eb
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| Added Entry
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Lawson, Alan.
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Tiffin, Chris.
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