| Description |
xii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : The textuality of empire / Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson -- The scramble for post-colonialism / Stephen Slemon -- Excess : post-colonialism and the verandahs of meaning / Bill Ashcroft -- Some problems of response to empire in settler post-colonial societies / Chris Prentice -- Theorizing racism / Terry Collits -- The myth of authenticity : representation, discourse and social practice / Gareth Griffiths -- Breyten Breytenbach and the censor / J.M. Coetzee -- De-scribing orality : performance and the recuperation of voice / Helen Gilbert -- Inscribing the emptiness : cartography, exploration an dthe construction of Australia / Simon Ryan -- The unfinished Commonwealth : boundaries of civility in popular Australian fiction of the first Commonwealth decade / Robert Dixon -- "The softest disorder" : representing cultural indeterminacy / Fiona Giles -- "The only free people in the Empire" : gender difference in colonial discourse / Bridget Orr -- De-scribing The Water-babies : 'the child' in post-colonial theory / Jo-Ann Wallace -- Modernity, voice, and window-breaking : Jean Rhys's 'Let them call it jazz' / Sue Thomas -- Speaking the unspeakable : London, Cambridge and the Caribbean / Paul Sharrad -- The speaking abject : the impossible world of realized empire / Howard McNaughton -- Conclusion : Reading difference / Alan Lawson and Chris Tiffin |
| Summary |
Annotation pending |
| Analysis |
Commonwealth countries |
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English literature |
| Notes |
ANB95/04 |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 236-249 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Imperialism in literature.
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Literature and society.
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Politics and literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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| Author |
Lawson, Alan, 1948-
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Tiffin, Chris.
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| LC no. |
93044378 |
| ISBN |
0415105463 |
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0415105471 (paperback) |
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