Decolonization agonistics in postcolonial fiction
by Chidi Okonkwo
Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction challenges the prevailing western-originated concepts of postcoloniality and postcolonial cultural/literary theory on the grounds that behind their fashionable emancipatory rhetoric, they actually submerge Third World anti-colonialist writing under Western strategic calculations for the post-cold war era.
In place of the homogenizing approach which lumps together all the world's literature outside the male-authored texts of the major European powers, it introduces important distinctions between the literature of Europe's temporarily disadvantaged insiders, the imperial-outpost literatures of the European diaspora in the Americas and Australasia, and the decolonization literatures of third-world peoples and ethnic minorities which constitute the West's third-world underbellies.
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History and criticism, Decolonization in literature, History, Commonwealth fiction (English), Literature and society, Colonies in literature, English fiction, Postcolonialism in literature, Postcolonialism, Roman du Commonwealth (anglais), Histoire et critique, Littérature et société, Histoire, Roman anglais, Postcolonialisme, Décolonisation dans la littérature, Colonies dans la littérature, Commonwealth literature (english), history and criticism, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th centuryTimes
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Decolonization agonistics in postcolonial fiction
1999, St. Martin's Press
in English
0312220685 9780312220686
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index.
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