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Postcolonial Resistance

Culture, Liberation, and Transformation

Autor: David Jefferess

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Editura: University Of Toronto Press

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Despite being central to the project of postcolonialism, the concept of resistance has received only...

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Autor

David Jefferess

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2008

Pagini

255

EAN

9780802091901

ISBN

0802091903

Enbook ID

04711293

Editura

University Of Toronto Press

Greutate

532

Dimensiuni

255 x 165 x 25

Descriere completă

Despite being central to the project of postcolonialism, the concept of resistance has received only limited theoretical examination. Writers such as Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, and Homi K. Bhabha have explored instances of revolt, opposition, or subversion, but there has been insufficient critical analysis of the concept of resistance, particularly as it relates to liberation or social and cultural transformation. In Postcolonial Resistance, David Jefferess looks to redress this critical imbalance. Jefferess argues that interpreting resistance, as these critics have done, as either acts of opposition or practices of subversion is insufficient. He discerns in the existing critical literature an alternate paradigm for postcolonial politics, and through close analyses of the work of Mohandas Gandhi and the South African reconciliation project, Postcolonial Resistance seeks to redefine resistance to reconnect an analysis of colonial discourse to material structures of colonial exploitation and inequality. Engaging works of postcolonial fiction, literary criticism, historiography, and cultural theory, Jefferess conceives of resistance and reconciliation as dependent upon the transformation of both the colonial subject and the antagonistic nature of colonial power. In doing so, he reframes postcolonial conceptions of resistance, violence, and liberation, thus inviting future scholarship in the field to reconsider past conceptualizations of political power and opposition to that power.