De-Scribing Empire

Post-Colonialism and Textuality

By: Alan Lawson (Editor), Chris Tiffin (Editor)

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Paperback | 18 August 1994 | Edition Number 1

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"De-Scribing Empire" is a stunning collection of first-rate essays that examine the textual fabric of colonialism and its legacy. Together they interpret the formative role of books, writing and textuality in imperial control and their role in fashioning colonial world-views. Foregrounding strategies of understanding and resistance, "De-Scribing Empire" places itself within a critical tradition of post-colonial studies.
As a spirited collection of some of the newest critical thinking, "De-Scribing Empire" analyses the multifarious ways in which imperialism operated textually. The authors examine such issues as the power of cartography to elide and dislocate identities; the imperial role of 19th century children's literature; the place of the feminine in colonial power hierarchies; the racialist unease shrouding early twentieth century adventure fiction; the questions and implications of "authenticity"; and the contradictions and tribulations of teaching resistance literature in western educational institutions.

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Linguistics Semantics & Discourse Analysis History Specific Events & Topics in History Colonialism & Imperialism National Liberation & Independence Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current

Post-Colonial Literature Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Post-Colonial Theory	p. 13
The Scramble for Post-Colonialism	p. 15
Excess	p. 33
Some Problems of Response to Empire in Settler Post-Colonial Societies	p. 45
Race and Representation	p. 59
Theorizing Racism	p. 61
The Myth of Authenticity	p. 70
Notes	p. 85
Breyten Breytenbach and the Censor	p. 86
De-Scribing Orality	p. 98
Reading Empire	p. 113
Inscribing the Emptiness	p. 115
The Unfinished Commonwealth	p. 131
'The Softest Disorder'	p. 141
'The Only Free People in the Empire'	p. 152
Re-Writing and Re-Reading Empire	p. 169
De-Scribing the Water-Babies	p. 171
Modernity, Voice, and Window-Breaking	p. 185
Notes	p. 198
Speaking the Unspeakable	p. 201
The Speaking Abject	p. 218
Notes	p. 229
Conclusion	p. 230
Bibliography	p. 236
Index	p. 250
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