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978843
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b733213
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Ashcroft, Bill,1946-
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On post-colonial futures : : transformations of colonial culture /\ Bill Ashcroft.
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London ;New York :: Continuum,, 2001.
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Writing past colonialism.
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1 online resource (170 pages)
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| ISBN
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0826452256
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: 1281298263
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: 9781847141149
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: 9786611298265
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0826452256
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0826452264
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9780826452269
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9781847141149
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index.
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| Contents
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The future of English -- Latin America and post-colonial transformation -- "Primitive and wingless": the colonial subject as child -- Childhood and possibility: David Malouf's An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon -- Sweet futures: sugar and colonialism -- Caliban's language -- Fractured paradigms: the fragility of discourse -- A prophetic vision of the past: history and allegory in Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda -- Irony, allegory and empire: J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and In the Heart of the Country.
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In this groundbreaking work, Bill Ashcroft extends the arguments posed in The Empire Writes Back to investigate the transformative effects of postcolonial resistance and the continuing relevance of colonial struggle. He demonstrates the remarkable capacity for change and adaptation emanating from postcolonial cultures both in everyday life and in the intellectual spheres of literature, history and philosophy. The transformations of postcolonial literary study have not been limited to a simple rewriting of the canon but have also affected the ways in which all literature can be read and have le.
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Carey, Peter,(1943- ...)-- Critique et interprétation.
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Coetzee, John Maxwell,(1940- ...)-- Critique et interprétation.
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Malouf, David,(1934- ...)-- Critique et interprétation.
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Wandel, ...
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Commonwealth
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Decolonization.
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Politics and culture.
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Postcolonialism.
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Social change.
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Colonies-- Dans la littérature.
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Décolonisation.
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Decolonization.
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Entkolonialisierung
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Gesellschaft
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Impérialisme-- Dans la littérature.
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Kultur
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Colonialism Post-Colonialism.
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Politics and culture.
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Politik
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Politique et culture.
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Postcolonialism.
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Postcolonialisme.
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Postkoloniale Literatur
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Social change.
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Postkolonialisme.
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Englisch.
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| Dewey Classification
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325/.3
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| LC Classification
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JV51.A74 2001eb
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18.07bcl
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89.91bcl
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