· 2012
The Location of Culture
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- 2012year
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This abstract outlines a book or collection of essays exploring the complex relationship between culture, identity, and colonialism, particularly through the lens of postcolonial theory.
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Key points
- Explores the theoretical commitment to understanding culture.
- Interrogates identity through postcolonial and Fanonian perspectives.
- Analyzes colonial discourse, stereotype, and discrimination.
- Discusses mimicry, authority, and cultural translation.
- Connects 'race', time, and the revision of modernity.
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Abstract
Acknowledgements, Introduction: Locations of culture, 1. The commitment to theory, 2. Interrogating identity: Frantz Fanon and the postcolonial prerogative, 3. The other question: Stereotype, discrimination and the discourse of colonialism, 4. Of mimicry and man: The ambivalence of colonial discourse, 5. Sly civility, 6. Signs taken for wonders: Questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817, 7. Articulating the archaic: Cultural difference and colonial nonsense, 8. DissemiNation: Time, narrative and the margins of the modern nation, 9. The postcolonial and the postmodern: The question of agency, 10. By bread alone: Signs of violence in the mid-nineteenth century, 11. How newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation, 12. Conclusion: 'Race', time and the revision of modernity, Notes, Index.
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