Rachida Yassine

Re-Writing The Canon

Aspects Of Identity Reconstitution In Postcolonial Contexts

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is concerned with ethnocentric/colonial representations of Europe's Other, and with postcolonial re-writings and subversions of such representations. It consists of a critical study of a cluster of canonical literary texts and Orientalist pictorial representations, and a critical assessment of a variety of postcolonial/resistance works writing back to these canonical texts and representations. Part of my concern with the colonial texts lies with what I consider to be sites of ambiguity in ethnocentric/colonial discourse. In my study of the postcolonial texts, emphasis is on the distinct oppositional strategies used by postcolonial writers in their subversive re-writings of colonial texts, and the different perspectives they adopt in their attempts at re-constituting and re-presenting postcolonial cultural identity and the Self from a position of oppositional, postcolonial historical and cultural consciousness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Éditions universitaires européennes
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9786131562198
• ISBN-10: 6131562199
• Artikelnr.: 33628617

Autorenporträt

Rachida Yassine is a professor of English and Cultural studies at the Department of English Studies of Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco. She is co-founder of a doctoral program in 'Race, Ethnicity, and Alterity in Literature and Culture'.