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Friends and enemies : the scribal politics of post/colonial literature / Chris Bongie.
The author explores the troubled relationship between postcolonial theory and 'politics', both in the sense of a radical, revolutionary politics associated with anti-colonial struggle, and the almost inevitable implication of literary writers in institutional discourses of power.
Record details
- ISBN: 1846315298
- ISBN: 9781846315299
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 412 pages)
- Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:july.24 Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Humanitarian interventions : the Haitian revolution in translation, 1793-1833. Incursion I, France and Haiti, 1804/2004 : postimperial melancholy, 'new humanist' elation ; 'The friend of equalityj' : terror and forgetting in the novels of Jean-Baptiste Picquenard ; 'The cause of humanity' : Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal and the limits of liberal translation -- Between memory and nostalgia : commemorating post/colonialism, 1998-2004. Inclursion II ; 'Chroniques de la francophonie triomphante' : the dutiful memories of Reǵis Debray ; A street named Bissette : assimilating the cent-cinquantenaire of the abolition of slavery in Martinique (1848-1998) ; 'Monotonies of history' : Baron de Vastey and the mulatto legend of Derek Walcott's Haitian trilogy -- Exiles on main stream : browsing the Franco-Caribbean canon. Incursion III, Futures past? David Scott's Black Jacobins and the dead end of cultural politics ; Withering heights : Maryse Conde ánd the postcolonial middlebrow ; Spectres of Glissant : dealing in relation. |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
| Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by JSTOR. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
