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*020  $a0-19-280182-1 (pbk.)
*020  $a0-19-280182-1  :$c£6.99
*020  $a978-0-19-280182-1
*020  $a978-0-19-280182-1
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*084  $aOcga
*1001 $aYoung, Robert J. C.
*24510$aPostcolonialism :$ba very short introduction  /$cRobert J.C. Young
*260  $aOxford ;$a2003 :$bOxford University Press ,$c2003
*300  $a180 s.  :$bill.  :$c18 cm
*440  $aVery short introductions  ;$v98
*650 4$aLiterature, Modern
*650 4$aHistory and criticism.
*650 4$aColonies in literature.
*650 4$aImperialism in literature.
*650 4$aPostkolonialism
*650 4$aPostcolonialism
*697  $cPolitiska begrepp
*8520 $hOc
*950  $aStatsvetenskap
*950  $aPostkolonialism
*950  $aAvkolonisering
*950  $aPostkolonialism
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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 raï 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.

• Acknowledgementsp. x
• List of illustrationsp. xiii
• Introduction: Montagep. 1
• Subaltern knowledgep. 9
• History and power, from below and abovep. 26
• Space and landp. 45
• Hybridityp. 69
• Postcolonial feminismp. 93
• Globalization from a postcolonial perspectivep. 121
• Translationp. 138
• Referencesp. 149
• Further readingp. 159
• Indexp. 171