This work provides a critique of the major theoretical statements on "colonial discourse" and "post-colonialism", aiming to dismantle many of the commonplaces and conceits that dominate contemporary cultural theory.

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Ahmad, Aijaz

Verso Editions

New Left Books

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Pbk. ed, London ; New York, 1994

Paperback edition, London, 1994

New Ed edition, July 1994

PS, 1994

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After the Second World War, nationalism emerged as the principle expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from the Indian subcontinent to Africa, to parts of Latin America and the Pacific Rim. With the Bandung Conference and the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement, many of Europes former colonies banded together to form a common bloc, aligned with neither the advanced capitalist First World nor with the socialist Second World. In this historical context, the category of Third World literature emerged, a category that has itself spawned a whole industry of scholarly and critical studies, particularly in the metropolitan West, but increasingly in the homelands of the Third World itself.
Setting himself against the growing tendency to homogenize Third World literature and cultures, Aijaz Ahmad has produced a spirited critique of the major theoretical statements on colonial discourse and post-colonialism, dismantling many of the commonplaces and conceits that dominate contemporary cultural criticism. With lengthy considerations of, among others, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, and the Subaltern Studies group, In Theory also contains brilliant analyses of the concept of Indian literature, of the genealogy of the term Third World, and of the conditions under which so-called colonial discourse theory emerged in metropolitan intellectual circles.
Erudite and lucid, Ahmads remapping of the terrain of cultural theory is certain to provoke passionate response.

Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 5
Introduction: Literature among the Signs of Our Time......Page 8
1. Literary Theory and 'Third WorldLiterature': Some Contexts......Page 50
2. Languages of Class,Ideologies of Immigration......Page 80
3. Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the 'National Allegory'......Page 102
4. Salman Rushdie's "Shame": Postmodern Migrancy and the Representation of Women......Page 130
5. Orientalism and After: Ambivalence and Metropolitan Location in the Work of Edward Said......Page 166
6. Marx on India: A Clarification......Page 228
7. 'Indian Literature': Notes towards the Definition of a Category......Page 250
8. Three Worlds Theory: End of a Debate......Page 294
Notes......Page 326
Index......Page 352

Aijaz Ahmad. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 319-343) And Index.

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