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1 online resource |
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature |
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Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: Conveying Colonial Space; 1 Imperial Interpellations: Signifying the West's Scene of Writing; 2 In the Name-of-the-Father: Imperial Mastery, Paternity, and Settlement; PART II: Nation as Imperial Project in the Americas; 3 Signifying Bodies: Slavery and the Writing of Western Nationhood in the Americas; 4 Modern Fantasies of Universality: Segregation, Science, and Urban Renewal in Fin de Siècle Americas; PART III: Empire and Late Capitalism |
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5 Meaning in Movement: Empire, Difference, and Late Capitalism6 The Metropolis after Decolonization, or Re-writing Empire; Conclusion; Index |
| Summary |
This book brings forth a new contribution to the study of imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial power. While recent decades of theoretical reflections on imperialism have yielded important understandings of how the West has repeatedly reconsolidated its power, this book seeks to grasp the complex role of subjectivity in reformulating the terms of imperial domination from early modern European expansion to late capitalism. This entails approaching Empire as a constantly shifting system of differences and meanings as well as an ontological project, a mode of historical writing, and economy of desire that repeatedly envelops the subject into the realm of western power. The analysis of an array of literary texts and cultural artifacts is undertaken by means of a theoretically eclectic approach - drawing on psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, postcolonial theory, and Marxism - with the aim of forwarding current knowledge of Empire while also contributing to different branches of critical theory |
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Print version record |
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Subjectivity in literature.
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Imperialism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Subjectivity in literature.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317443391 |
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131744339X |
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9781317443384 |
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1317443381 |
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