Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Theory, Nonfiction, History
| Author: | Robert J. C. Young | ISBN: | 9780191622274 |
| Publisher: | OUP Oxford | Publication: | June 26, 2003 |
| Imprint: | OUP Oxford | Language: | English |
| Author: | Robert J. C. Young |
| ISBN: | 9780191622274 |
| Publisher: | OUP Oxford |
| Publication: | June 26, 2003 |
| Imprint: | OUP Oxford |
| Language: | English |
This innovative and lively book is quite unlike any other introduction to postcolonialism. Robert Young examines the political, social, and cultural after-effects of decolonization by presenting situations, experiences, and testimony rather than going through the theory at an abstract level. He situates the debate in a wide cultural context, discussing its importance as an historical condition, with examples such as the status of aboriginal people, of those dispossessed from their land, Algerian ra� music, postcolonial feminism, and global social and ecological movements. Above all, Young argues, postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, and so in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past.
This innovative and lively book is quite unlike any other introduction to postcolonialism. Robert Young examines the political, social, and cultural after-effects of decolonization by presenting situations, experiences, and testimony rather than going through the theory at an abstract level. He situates the debate in a wide cultural context, discussing its importance as an historical condition, with examples such as the status of aboriginal people, of those dispossessed from their land, Algerian ra� music, postcolonial feminism, and global social and ecological movements. Above all, Young argues, postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, and so in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past.
