Understanding postcolonialism /
"Postcolonialism offers challenging and provocative ways of thinking about colonial and neocolonial power, about self and other, and about the discourses that perpetuate postcolonial inequality and violence. Much of the seminal work in postcolonialism has been shaped by currents in philosophy,...
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| Language: | English |
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Stocksfield :
Acumen,
2009.
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| Series: | Understanding movements in modern thought.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Fanon and Sartre: colonial Manichaeism and the call to arms
- Decolonization, community, nationalism: Gandhi, Nandy and the Subaltern Studies Collective
- Foucault and Said: colonial discourse and Orientalism
- Derrida and Bhabha: self, other and postcolonial ethics
- Khatibi and Glissant: postcolonial ethics and the return to place
- Ethics with politics? Spivak, Mudimbe, Mbembe
- Conclusion: neocolonialism and the future of the discipline.