Re-writing the canon - aspects of identity reconstitution in postcolonial contexts

• Date de parution : 15/06/2011
• Editeur : Editions Universitaires Europeennes
• EAN : 9786131562198
• Série : (-)
• Support : Poche

• Nombre de pages : (-)
• Collection : (-)
• Genre : Lettres et linguistique
• Thème : Lettres et linguistique Poche
• Prix littéraire(s) : (-)

This book is concerned with ethnocentric/colonial representations of Europe''s Other, and with postcolonial re-writings and subversions of such representations. It consists of a critical study of a cluster of canonical literary texts and Orientalist pictorial representations, and a critical... Voir plus

This book is concerned with ethnocentric/colonial representations of Europe''s Other, and with postcolonial re-writings and subversions of such representations. It consists of a critical study of a cluster of canonical literary texts and Orientalist pictorial representations, and a critical assessment of a variety of postcolonial/resistance works writing back to these canonical texts and representations. Part of my concern with the colonial texts lies with what I consider to be sites of ambiguity in ethnocentric/colonial discourse. In my study of the postcolonial texts, emphasis is on the distinct oppositional strategies used by postcolonial writers in their subversive re-writings of colonial texts, and the different perspectives they adopt in their attempts at re-constituting and re-presenting postcolonial cultural identity and the Self from a position of oppositional, postcolonial historical and cultural consciousness.