Main entry:

Young, Robert, 1950-

Title & Author:

Postcolonialism : an historical introduction / Robert J.C. Young.

Publication:

Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Description:

xi, 498 pages ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-472) and index.
Preface -- Colonialism and the politics of postcolonial critique -- Part I: Concepts of history. Colonialism ; Imperialism ; Neocolonialism ; Postcolonialism -- Part II: European anti-colonialism. Las casas to Bentham ; Nineteenth-century liberalism ; Marx on colonialism and imperialism -- Part III: The internationals. Socialism and nationalism : the first international to the Russian Revolution ; The third international, to the Baku Congress of the peoples of the East ; The women's international, the third and the fourth internationals -- Part IV: Theoretical practices of the freedom struggles. The national liberation movements : introduction ; Marxism and the national liberation movements ; China, Egypt, Bandung ; Latin America I : Mariátegui, transculturation and cultural dependency ; Latin America II : Cuba : Guevara, Castro and the tricontinental ; Africa I : Anglophone African socialism ; Africa II : Nkrumah and pan-Africanism ; Africa III : the Senghors and the Francophone African socialism ; Africa IV : Fanon/Cabral ; The subject of violence : Algeria, Ireland ; India I : Marxism in India ; India II : Gandhi's counter-modernity -- Part V: Formations of postcolonial theory. India III : Hybridity and subaltern agency ; Women, gender and anti-colonialism ; Edward Said and colonial discourse ; Foucault in Tunisia ; Subjectivity and history : Derrida in Algeria -- Epilogue: Tricontinentalism, for a transnational social justice.
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Summary:

This introductory text explains the historical and theoretical origins of post-colonial theory. The author analyses the concepts and issues involved, explains the meaning of key terms, and interprets the work of some of the major writers concerned.

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ISBN:

0631200703 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780631200703 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0631200711 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780631200710 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Postcolonialism History.
Postcolonialisme Histoire.
89.91 imperialism.
Postcolonialism
Postkolonialismus
Entkolonialisierung
Postkolonialisme.
Theorievorming.
Bevrijdingsbewegingen.
Dekolonisatie.

Form/genre:

History
History (form)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300081
Call No.: BIB 246251
Status: Available