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      Postcolonial Studies book

      A Materialist Critique

      Postcolonial Studies

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      Postcolonial Studies book

      A Materialist Critique
      ByBenita Parry
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2004
      eBook Published 15 April 2004
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203420539
      Pages 256
      eBook ISBN 9780203420539
      Subjects Language & Literature
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      Parry, B. (2004). Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203420539

      ABSTRACT

      This powerful selection of essays proposes practices of reading and criticism to make the field of postcolonial studies more fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions. Benita Parry points to 'directions and dead ends' in the discipline she has helped to shape, with a first series of essays vigorously challenging colonial discourse theory and postcolonialism as we have known them. She then turns to literature with a series of detailed readings that not only demonstrate her theoretical position at work, but also give new dimensions to widely studied texts by Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells and E. M. Forster. Parry argues throughout that the material impulses of colonialism, its appropriation of physical resources, exploitation of human labour and institutional repression have too long been allowed to recede from view.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part |2 pages

      Part One Directions and dead ends in postcolonial studies

      chapter 1|10 pages

      Beginnings, affiliations, disavowals

      chapter 2|24 pages

      Problems in current theories of colonial discourse

      chapter 3|18 pages

      Resistance theory/theorizing resistance or two cheers for nativism

      chapter 4|20 pages

      Signs of the times

      chapter 5|18 pages

      Liberation theory: variations on themes of Marxism and modernity

      chapter 6|12 pages

      Internationalism revisited or in praise of internationalism

      part |2 pages

      Part Two The imperial imaginary

      chapter 7|12 pages

      Reading the signs of empire in metropolitan fiction

      chapter 8|13 pages

      The content and discontents of Kipling’s imperialism

      chapter 9|16 pages

      Narrating imperialism: beyond Conrad’s dystopias

      chapter 10|14 pages

      Tono-Bungay: the failed electrification of the empire of light

      chapter 11|17 pages

      Materiality and mystification in A Passage to India

      chapter 12|16 pages

      Reconciliation and remembrance

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