Publication

2001 - Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK, England

Language

English

Word Count

124,500 words, Guess

Page Count

498 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • Goodreads643601
  • Library of Congress Control Number00010583
  • OCLC Control Number44634246
  • Better World Books9780631200710
  • Open LibraryOL22377043M

Classifications

  • LCCJV51 .Y68 2001
  • LCCJV51.Y68 2001
  • DDC809.93358

Description

"This 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 examining the abstract theory. He situates the debate in a wide cultural context discussing its importance as an historical condition, using examples such as the status of aboriginal people, of those dispossessed from their land, Algerian rai music, postcolonial feminism, and global social and ecological movements. Above all, Young argues that postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, which in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past."--Jacket.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Postcolonialism: an historical introductionBlackwell Publishers2001-01-01

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