Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory  (English, Paperback, Barker Francis)

This truly global volume ranges geographically from Barzil to India and South Africa, from the Andes to the caribbean and the USA. This range is matched by a breadth of historical perspectives. the contributors focus on theoretical matters, though their references cover diverse topics. Central to the whole volume is a critique of the very idea of the "postcolonial" itself.

About the Author
Francis Barker teaches Literature at the University of Essex. He is the author of The tremulous private body (1984), and of The culture of violence (1993). He is writing a book on artificiality, with the working title Breathing simulacra.

Peter Hulme teaches Literature at the University of Essex. he is the author of Colonial encounters: Europe and native Caribbean, 1942-1797 (1986) and joint editor (with Neil Whitehead) of Wild majesty: encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the present day (1992).

Margaret Iversen is a lecturer in the department of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex. Her Alois Riegl: art history and theory appeared recently. She is currently working on a book entitled Poststructuralist theory and modern art, and planning another on pyschoanalytic aesthetics.

Table of Contents

• Transculturation and autoethography: Peru 1651/1980
• Rousseau"s patrimony: primitivism, romance and becoming other
• The locked heart: the creole family romance of Wide sargasso sea
• The recalcitrant object: culture contact and the question of hybridity
• Anthropology and race in Brazilian modernism
• How to read a "culturally different" book
• Post-apartheid narratives
• Resistance theory / theorising resistance, or two cheers for nativism
• National consciousness and the specificity of (post) colonial intellectualism
• Ethnic cultures, minority discourse and the state
• Social justice and the crisis of national communities
• The angel of progress: pitfalls of the term "postcolonialism.