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Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism (SUNY series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies) by Alfred J. López is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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In Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism, Alfred J. Lopez argues for a formulation of postcolonial studies which diverges in three significant ways from current academic and institutional practices: 1) the postcolonial as diasporic, constituted by a series of dispersed and irregular criticisms not at all containable within a single set of parameters, whether historical, geographical, or socioeconomic; 2) the postcolonial as a distinct ontological moment in the life of a nation or people, in which it conceives itself as doubly haunted--on the one hand by the "memory in advance" of a collective national future and on the other by its colonial past; and 3) the postcolonial as a distinct phenomenological moment, a radical break in the history of a relation between lords and bonds-women and -men. Going further than previous studies to address the postcolonial as a diasporic body of texts and discourses, it looks at a remarkable variety of writers—Joseph Conrad, Wilson Harris, José Martí, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Michelle Cliff, J. M. Coetzee, Franz Fanon, Gabriel Marcia Marquez, and Salman Rushdie.
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- Author
- Alfred J. López
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press; State Univ of New York Pr
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780791490525
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction
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