Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Politics & Literature, Literary Theory - General & Miscellaneous, Society & Culture in Literature, Literary Theory - Major Schools, Colonialism & Imperialism - General & Miscellaneous

Posts and Pasts

Name: Posts and Pasts
Author: Alfred J. Lopez
ISBN: 9780791449943

by Alfred J. Lopez

Available on Bookshop Write a review

Books.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.

Overview

"In Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism, Alfred J. Lopez argues for a formulation of postcolonial studies which diverges in three significant ways from current academic and institutional practices: 1) the postcolonial as diasporic, constituted by a series of dispersed and irregular criticisms not at all containable within a single set of parameters, whether historical, geographical, or socioeconomic; 2) the postcolonial as a distinct ontological moment in the life of a nation or people, in which it conceives itself as doubly haunted - on the one hand by the "memory in advance" of a collective national future and on the other by its colonial past; and 3) the postcolonial as a distinct phenomenological moment, a radical break in the history of a relation between lords and bonds-women and -men."--BOOK JACKET.

Reviews

There are no reviews yet. Log in to write one.

Editorials

Booknews

In this study, L<'o>pez argues for a formulation of postcolonial studies which diverges in three significant ways from current academic and institutional practices: the postcolonial as constituted by a series of dispersed and irregular criticisms not at all containable within a single set of parameters, as a distinct ontological moment in the life of a nation or people, and as a phenomenological event signifying a radical break in the history of a relation between lords and bonds-people. Looking at a range of writers from Joseph Conrad to Salman Rushdie, he addresses the postcolonial as a diasporic body of texts and discourses. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)