Postcolonial Studies A Materialist Critique 1st Edition by Benita Parry ISBN 978-1134307364 1134307364

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ISBN 10:  1134307364

ISBN 13: 978-1134307364

Author: Benita Parry

This powerful selection of essays proposes practices of reading and criticism to make the field of postcolonial studies more fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions. Benita Parry points to ‘directions and dead ends’ in the discipline she has helped to shape, with a first series of essays vigorously challenging colonial discourse theory and postcolonialism as we have known them. She then turns to literature with a series of detailed readings that not only demonstrate her theoretical position at work, but also give new dimensions to widely studied texts by Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells and E. M. Forster. Parry argues throughout that the material impulses of colonialism, its appropriation of physical resources, exploitation of human labour and institutional repression have too long been allowed to recede from view.

Table of contents: 

Part One: Directions and Dead Ends in Postcolonial Studies
Part Two: The Imperial Imaginary

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