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

By: Young, Robert, 1950-Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, 2001. Description: xi, 498 p ; 26 cmISBN: 0631200703 hbk; 0631200711 pbkSubject(s): Postcolonialism -- HistoryDDC classification: 325.3 LOC classification: JV51 .Y68 2001JV51 | .Y68 2001Online resources: WorldCat details

Contents:

TOC Colonialism and the politics of postcolonial critique -- Colonialism -- Imperialism -- Neocolonialism -- Postcolonialism -- Las casas to Bentham -- Nineteenth-century liberalism -- Marx on colonialism and imperialism -- 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 -- 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: 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: Marxism in India -- India II: Gandhi's counter-modernity -- 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.

Summary: Robert Young provides a wide-ranging analysis of post-colonial theory's emergence from anti-colonial movements in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, tracing the development of a transnational third-world "counter-modernity" through the work of major figures of the freedom struggles.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU		325.3 YOP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Available		4360-15688
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	325.3 YOP 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-2	Not For Loan		15700

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-472) and index

TOC Colonialism and the politics of postcolonial critique --
Colonialism --
Imperialism --
Neocolonialism --
Postcolonialism --
Las casas to Bentham --
Nineteenth-century liberalism --
Marx on colonialism and imperialism --
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 --
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: 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: Marxism in India --
India II: Gandhi's counter-modernity --
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.

Robert Young provides a wide-ranging analysis of post-colonial theory's emergence from anti-colonial movements in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, tracing the development of a transnational third-world "counter-modernity" through the work of major figures of the freedom struggles.

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