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Colonialism/postcolonialism / Ania Loomba.

Author/creator Loomba, Ania author.
Format Electronic and Book
EditionThird edition.
Publication Info Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
Description1 online resource (304 pages).
Supplemental Content Taylor & Francis
Subject(s)
Series New critical idiom
New critical idiom. ^A471878
Contents Cover; Half Tile; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series editor's preface ; Introduction; 1. Situating colonial and postcolonial studies; Defining The Terms: Colonialism, Imperialism, Neo-Colonialism, Postcolonialism; From Colonialism to Colonial Discourse; Colonial Discourse; Colonialism and Knowledge; Colonialism and Literature; Textuality, Discourse and Material Processes; Notes ; 2. Colonial and postcolonial identities; Constructing Racial and Cultural Difference; Race, Class and Colonialism; Psychoanalysis and Colonial Subjects; Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Discourse.
Contents Hybridity; Notes; 3. Challenging colonialism ; Nationalisms and Pan-Nationalisms ; Anticolonialism and Women; Feminism and Globalization; Subaltern Agency; Marxism and Post-Structuralism in Postcolonial Studies; Notes ; Conclusion: The future of postcolonial studies ; Bibliography; Index.
Abstract Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies. This new edition includes a new introduction and conclusion as well as extensive updates throughout. Topics covered include Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, and grassroots movements all over the third world and their implications for postcolonial perspectives and theories considered. Loomba discusses several key parts of the world that illuminate the contemporary forms taken by colonialism such as Palestine and Kashmir and covers the debates.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 23, 2015).
Issued in other formPrint version: Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2015 9781138807174
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9781317614579 (electronic bk.)
ISBN1317614577 (electronic bk.)
ISBN9781315751245
ISBN1315751240
ISBN9781317614562 (ePub ebook)
ISBN1317614569
ISBN9781317614555 (Mobipocket ebook)
ISBN1317614550
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