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Rethinking Postcolonialism

Colonialist Discourse in Modern Literatures and the Legacy of Classical Writers

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  1. Amar Acheraïou
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

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      Pages 1-8

  3. Colonialist Discourse: A Rhetorical and Ideological Palimpsest

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      Pages 9-9
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    2. Modern Europe and Classical Connections

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      Pages 11-39

    3. Imperial Ideology: Between Totality and Differentiation

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      Pages 40-54

    4. Impact of Classical Discourse of Barbarism on Modern Colonial Taxonomies

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      Pages 55-69

    5. Colonialism: From Hegemony to Infantilism

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      Pages 70-81

    6. Modernist Writers, Classical Ideal and Empire

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      Pages 82-112

  4. Modernist Literature and Colonialism: Between Contest and Complicity

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      Pages 113-113
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    2. Modernism, Modernity and Imperialism

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      Pages 115-120

    3. Culture, Civilisation and Inter-Racial Encounters: Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly

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      Pages 121-137

    4. Redeeming the Colonial Idea: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

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      Pages 138-157

    5. Pedagogy of Re-Colonisation or the Peaceful Re-Conquest: André Gide’s Voyage au Congo

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      Pages 158-175

    6. Split Between Radical Rhetoric and Conservative Practices: Graham Greene’s Journey Without Maps

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      Pages 176-195

    7. Getting Out of the ‘Nightmares’ of History and ‘Stiff’ Imperial Culture: Albert Camus

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      Pages 196-213

    8. Conclusion

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      Pages 214-219

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 220-250
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About this book

Acheraiou challenges postcolonial discourse analysis and proposes a new model of interpretation that resituates the historical, ideological and conceptual denseness of the Colonial idea. He questions key issues, including hybridity, Otherness and territoriality, and expands the postcolonial field by introducing ground-breaking theoretical concepts.

About the author

AMAR ACHERAIOU has taught in Algeria, Scotland and France. He has published numerous articles in American, British and French referred journals on modernist literatures, postmodernist thought and postcolonial theories. He is a regular reader and book reviewer for Conradiana and is Canadian Comparative Literature Association's Regional Representative for Quebec. He is currently editing Conrad and the Orient (forthcoming) and working on a book project entitled Post-Imperial Europe: Culture, Race, Identity.

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