Empire, Colony, Postcolony

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John Wiley & Sons, Jun 29, 2015 - Literary Criticism - 224 pages

Empire, Colony, Postcolony provides a clear exposition of the historical, political and ideological dimensions of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonialism, with clear explanations of these categories, which relate their histories to contemporary political issues. The book analyzes major concepts and explains the meaning of key terms.

  • The first book to introduce the main historical and cultural parameters of the different categories of empire, colony, postcolony, nation, and globalization and the ways in which they are analyzed today
  • Explains in clear and accessible language the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory as well as providing a postcolonial perspective on the formations of the contemporary world
  • Written by an acknowledged expert on postcolonialism
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 Empire
7
Chapter 3 Colony
27
Chapter 4 Slavery and Race
42
Chapter 5 Colonialism and Imperialism
52
Chapter 6 Nation
66
Chapter 7 Nationalism
77
Chapter 8 Anticolonialism
85
Chapter 10 Neocolonialism Globalization Planetarity
117
Chapter 11 Postcolony
135
Chapter 12 Postcolonialism
149
References
178
Name Index
191
Subject Index
195
EULA
209
Copyright

Chapter 9 Decolonization
103

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About the author (2015)

Robert J.C. Young, FBA, is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. His writing ranges across the fields of cultural and political history, literature, philosophy, photography, psychoanalysis and translation studies, with a particular focus on colonial history and postcolonial theory. His publications include White Mythologies: Writing History and the West (1990), Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Culture, Theory and Race (1995), Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (Wiley, 2001), Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (2003), and The Idea of English Ethnicity (Wiley, 2008). He is the editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

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