parry, benita postcolonial studies a materialist critique,routledge 2004 (ebook)外语英文电子书

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1、PostcolonialStudiesThisvolumepresentsapowerfulselectionofreprintedandnewessaysbyoneofthemostimportantcriticsinpostcolonialstudies.Itconstitutesatrenchantcritiqueofthetextualismthathasdominatedthefieldandproposesalternativecriticalandreadingpracticesmoreattentivetohis

2、toricalcircumstancesandsocio-materialconditions.Inafirst,introductorychapter,BenitaParryoutlinesthehistoricalandpersonalcontextsfromwhichherworkhasemergedandpointsto‘directionsanddeadends’inthefieldshehashelpedtoshape.Thisisfollowedbyaseriesofessaysthatvigorouslychall

3、engecolonialdiscoursetheoryandpostcolonialismaswehaveknownthem.Parrythenturnstoliteraturewithaseriesofdetailedtextualandcontextualreadingsofwell-knowntexts.Thesenotonlydemonstratehertheoreticalpositionatwork,butalsogivenewdimensionstowidelystudiedtextsbyRudyardKipli

4、ng,JosephConrad,H.G.WellsandE.M.Forster.Whileacknowledgingthesignificanceofmuchworkdoneundertheemblemofpostcolonialstudies,Parryarguesthroughoutthatthematerialimpulsesofcolonialism,itsappropriationofphysicalresources,exploitationofhumanlabourandinstitutionalrepressio

5、nhavetoolongbeenallowedtorecedefromview.Whatthenisthefutureofpostcolonialism?Parryconcludeswiththecompellingargumentthattheoreticalworkmuststrivetojoinremembranceofthematerialpastwithacritiqueofthecontemporarycondition,remainingunreconciledtothepastandunconsoledbyth

6、epresent.PostcolonialStudies:AMaterialistCritiqueoffersaninvaluableframeworkuponwhichtobuildsuchafuture.BorninSouthAfricaandresidentintheUnitedKingdomsince1958,BenitaParryisHonoraryProfessorintheDepartmentofEnglishandComparativeLiteraryStudiesattheUniversityofWarwick

7、.FormanyyearsProfessorParryworkedasanindependentcriticwritingbooksandessaysontheliteratureoftheBritishEmpire,andmorerecentlyoncolonialdiscourseandthepostcolonialdiscussion.Hermanyinfluentialcontribu-tionstothefieldofpostcolonialstudiesincludeDelusionsandDiscoveries:St

8、udiesonIndiaintheBritishImagination(1972,revised1998)andConradandImperialism:IdeologicalBoundariesandVisionaryFrontiers(1983).Postcolonial