This book is concerned with ethnocentric/colonial representations of Europe’s Other, and with postcolonial re-writings and subversions of such representations. It consists of a critical study of a cluster of canonical literary texts and Orientalist pictorial representations, and a critical assessment of a variety of postcolonial/resistance works writing back to these canonical texts and representations. Part of my concern with the colonial texts lies with what I consider to be sites of ambiguity in ethnocentric/colonial discourse. In my study of the postcolonial texts, emphasis is on the distinct oppositional strategies used by postcolonial writers in their subversive re-writings of colonial texts, and the different perspectives they adopt in their attempts at re-constituting and re-presenting postcolonial cultural identity and the Self from a position of oppositional, postcolonial historical and cultural consciousness.
Détails du livre: |
|
ISBN-13: |
978-613-1-56219-8 |
ISBN-10: |
6131562199 |
EAN: |
9786131562198 |
Langue du Livre: |
English |
By (author) : |
Rachida Yassine |
Nombre de pages: |
256 |
Publié le: |
15.06.2011 |
Catégorie: |
Letters, Rhetoric |