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Postcolonialism / Robert J.C. Young.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Very short introductionsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.Description: 178 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0192801821
  • 9780192801821
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.93358 21
LOC classification:
  • JV51 .Y67 2003
Other classification:
  • 89.91
  • D066
  • AK 18000
  • EC 2450
  • EC 1878
  • LB 31000
  • NQ 9300
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Contents:
Subaltern knowledge. -- History and power, from below and above. -- Space and land. -- Hybridity. -- Postcolonial feminism. -- Globalization from a postcolonial perspective. -- Translation.
Review: "This book is quite unlike any other introduction to postcolonialism. Robert Young examines the political, social, and cultural after-effects of decolonization by presenting situations, experiences, and testimony rather than examining the abstract theory. He situates the debate in a wide cultural context discussing its importance as an historical condition, using examples such as the status of aboriginal people, of those dispossessed from their land, Algerian rai music, postcolonial feminism, and global social and ecological movements. Above all, Young argues that postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, which in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past."--Jacket.
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Intellectual Traditions II Spring Semester

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170) and index.

Subaltern knowledge. -- History and power, from below and above. -- Space and land. -- Hybridity. -- Postcolonial feminism. -- Globalization from a postcolonial perspective. -- Translation.

"This book is quite unlike any other introduction to postcolonialism. Robert Young examines the political, social, and cultural after-effects of decolonization by presenting situations, experiences, and testimony rather than examining the abstract theory. He situates the debate in a wide cultural context discussing its importance as an historical condition, using examples such as the status of aboriginal people, of those dispossessed from their land, Algerian rai music, postcolonial feminism, and global social and ecological movements. Above all, Young argues that postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, which in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past."--Jacket.

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