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Colonialism/postcolonialism

Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies. This new edition includes a new introduction and conclusion as well as extensive updates throughout. Topics covered include Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, and grassroots movements all over the third world and their implications for postcolonial perspectives and theories considered. Loomba discusses several key parts of the world that illuminate the contemporary forms taken by colonialism such as Palestine and Kashmir and covers the debates.

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  • "Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies. This new edition includes a new introduction and conclusion as well as extensive updates throughout. Topics covered include Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, and grassroots movements all over the third world and their implications for postcolonial perspectives and theories considered. Loomba discusses several key parts of the world that illuminate the contemporary forms taken by colonialism such as Palestine and Kashmir and covers the debates."@en
  • "Highly acclaimed across academic disciplines and around the world, Ania Loomba's Colonialism/Postcolonialism has for many years been widely accepted as the essential introduction to this politically charged area of literary and cultural study."@en
  • "A vital introduction to the historical dimensions and theoretical concepts associated with colonial and postcolonial discourses."@en
  • "Ania Loomba examines the key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism, and the relationship of colonial discourse to literature. She goes on to consider the challenges to colonialism, surveying anti-colonial discourses, and recent developments in postcolonial theories and histories. Looking at how sexuality is figured in the texts of colonialism, Colonialism/Postcolonialism shows how contemporary feminist ideas and concepts intersect with those of postcolonialist thought."
  • "Recommended on courses across academic disciplines and around the world, Ania Loomba's "Colonialism/Postcolonialism" has for some years been accepted as the essential introduction to this vibrant and politically charged area of literary and cultural study. This remarkably comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies introduces and examines: - key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism - the relationship of colonial discourse to literature - challenges to colonialism, including anticolonial discourses - recent developments in postcolonial theories and histories - issues of sexuality and colonialism, and the intersection of feminist and postcolonial thought. With extended coverage of emerging debates around globalization, as well as a fully updated bibliography, this second edition will continue to serve as the apposite guide for students new to colonial discourse theory, postcolonial studies or postcolonial theory."

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  • "History"@en
  • "Electronic resource"
  • "Electronic resource"@en
  • "Geschiedenis (vorm)"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Einführung"
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Ressources Internet"
  • "Electronic books"@en
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  • "Colonialism : postcolonialism"
  • "Colonialism / postcolonialism"
  • "Colonialismo/postcolonialismo"@it
  • "Colonialismo/postcolonialismo"
  • "Kolonializm-postkolonializm"@pl
  • "Kolonializem in neokolonializem"@sl
  • "Colonialism/postcoloialism"
  • "Kolonialism/Postkolonialism : en introduktion till ett forskningsfält"@sv
  • "Colonialism/postcolonialism"
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  • "Colonialism-postcolonialism"@en
  • "Colonialism-postcolonialism"
  • "Colonialism/Postcolonialism"@en
  • "Colonialism/Postcolonialism"
  • "Colonialism, postcolonialism"
  • "Colonialismo, postcolonialismo"

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