Neil Lazarus

The Postcolonial Unconscious

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Places postcolonial literary studies on a new conceptual footing; introduces the concepts, methods and substantive themes underpinning this new approach.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9781107006560
• ISBN-10: 1107006562
• Artikelnr.: 33269322

Autorenporträt

Neil Lazarus is Professor of English at the University of Warwick. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the political unconscious of postcolonial studies
1. The politics of postcolonial modernism
2. Fredric Jameson on 'third-world literature': a qualified defence
3. 'A figure glimpsed in a rear-view mirror': the question of representation in 'postcolonial' fiction
4. Frantz Fanon after the 'postcolonial prerogative'
5. The battle over Edward Said.