On Post-Colonial Futures: Transformations of a Colonial Culture

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A&C Black, 1 sep. 2001 - 178 sidor
In this groundbreaking work, Bill Ashcroft extends the arguments posed in The Empire Writes Back to investigate the transformative effects of postcolonial resistance and the continuing relevance of colonial struggle. He demonstrates the remarkable capacity for change and adaptation emanating from postcolonial cultures both in everyday life and in the intellectual spheres of literature, history and philosophy. The transformations of postcolonial literary study have not been limited to a simple rewriting of the canon but have also affected the ways in which all literature can be read and have led to a more profound understanding of the network of cultural practices that influence creative writing.

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Introduction
1
The future of English
7
Latin America and postcolonial transformation
22
Primitive and wingless the colonial subject as child
36
Childhood and possibility David Maloufs An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon
54
Sweet futures sugar and colonialism
67
Calibans language
81
Fractured paradigms the fragility of discourse
103
Postcolonial excess and colonial transformation
116
A prophetic vision of the past history and allegory in Peter Careys Oscar and Lucinda
128
Irony allegory and empire J M Coetzees Waiting for the Barbarians and In the Heart of the Country
140
References
159
Index
167
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Sida 13 - We must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly necessary to recapitulate. It stands pre-eminent even among the languages of the West. It abounds with works of imagination not inferior to the noblest...
Sida 101 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Sida 50 - I needed none of all this precaution; for never man had a more faithful, loving, sincere servant than Friday was to me; without passions, sullenness, or designs, perfectly obliged and engaged; his very affections were tied to me, like those of a child to a father...
Sida 90 - And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle, The fresh springs, brine pits, barren place, and fertile ; Cursed be I that did so ! All the charms Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you ! For I am all the subjects that you have, Which first was mine own king; and here you sty...
Sida 47 - Africa proper, as far as History goes back, has remained — for all purposes of connection with the rest of the World — shut up ; it is the Gold-land compressed within itself, — the land of childhood, which lying beyond the day of selfconscious history, is enveloped in the dark mantle of Night.
Sida 91 - would it had been done ! Thou didst prevent me ; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans. Pro. Abhorred slave ! Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill ! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other : when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but would'st gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known...
Sida 13 - Whoever knows that language has ready access to all the vast intellectual wealth, which all the wisest nations of the earth have created and hoarded in the course of ninety generations.
Sida 49 - They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity like yours - the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar.
Sida 95 - Power must be analysed as something which circulates, or rather as something which only functions in the form of a chain. It is never localised here or there, never in anybody's hands, never appropriated as a commodity or piece of wealth. Power is employed and exercised through a net-like organisation. And not only do individuals circulate between its threads; they are always in the position of simultaneously undergoing and exercising this power.

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Bill Ashcroft is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

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