Baron de Vastey

Gebundenes Buch

The Colonial System Unveiled

Beschreibung

The first translation into English of 'Le Systeme colonial devoile', the first systematic critique of colonialism ever written from the perspective of a colonized subject.

Autor

Baron de Vastey was a man of letters in post-revolutionary Haiti. He wrote four major books between 1814 and 1819, along with a series of pamphlets, before being murdered in 1820. Chris Bongie is Professor and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University, Canada. Previous publications include Friends and Enemies: The Scribal Politics of Post/Colonial Literature (LUP, 2008), Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature (Stanford UP, 1998) and Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de siècle (Stanford UP, 1991).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 656g
• ISBN-13: 9781781380314
• ISBN-10: 1781380317
• Artikelnr.: 40909819