Textual Traffic: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Economy of the TextSUNY Press, 2001 M04 19 - 224 páginas In Textual Traffic, S. Shankar clarifies notions of modernity and postmodernity by lucidly examining their relationship to colonialism. In the process, he challenges current emphases in cultural criticism through an exploration of what it means to regard the text as an economy and carries out a detailed scrutiny of travel narratives as a genre. Paying particular attention to representations of Africa and India, Shankar tracks the historical contours of a colonial modernity in a wide variety of travel narratives--African-American and postcolonial, canonical and filmic--drawn from different periods of the twentieth century. Included are explorations of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men, Richard Wright's Black Power, V. S. Naipaul's India trilogy, and Stephen Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. |
Contenido
Introduction Textual Economics the Modern and the Postmodern | 3 |
Travel Narratives and Gullivers Travels | 49 |
Into Darkness and Out of It | 77 |
Wright and Wrong in a Land of Pathos | 119 |
V S Naipaul Modernity and Postcolonial Excrement | 149 |
Notes | 187 |
201 | |
217 | |
Suny series Explorations in Postcolonial Studies | |
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Textual Traffic: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Economy of the Text S. Shankar Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Textual Traffic: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Economy of the Text S. Shankar Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Términos y frases comunes
Achebe African American anthropology anticolonial argued argument audience Berman Black Power British capitalism century Certeau chapter colonial modernity colonialist textual economy colonialist travel narrative Conrad's critical critique cultural politics discourse discussion Eatonville essay ethnographic vision Europe European subjectivity evaluative structures excremental explored expression film genre Ghana Gold Coast Gulliver Gulliver's Travels Heart of Darkness Home hoodoo ideology India Indiana Jones italics in original Jameson Joseph Conrad journey Kurtz literary Marlow Marx Marx's ment Mola Ram movie Mules Mutinies narratival narrator nationalism Nehru neocolonial neocolonialist nity Nkrumah notes passage politics of praxis postcard postcolonial postmodern practical context praxis production question racial racism reading reference regarding relationship revolution Richard Wright Rodney scene Sleeman social society suggests Swift Temple of Doom textual economy Third World thuggee tion trilogy ture underdevelopment universal civilization V. S. Naipaul West Western Wounded Civilization writes York Zora Neale Hurston
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