Rethinking postcolonialism : colonialist discourse in modern literatures and the legacy of classical writers
Amar Acheraïou (Author)
Rethinking Postcolonialism challenges postcolonial discourse analysis and proposes a new model of interpretation that resituates the historical, ideological and conceptual denseness of the Colonial Idea. It questions key issues, including hybridity, Otherness and territoriality, and expands the postcolonial field by introducing valuable, ground-breaking theoretical concepts: colonialism-as-grafting, colonialist discourse as a rhetorical and ideological palimpsest, m̌tissage as the space of the impossible. Amar Achera̐ou explores imperial intellectual history and shows how the classical writers₂ ideas on race, culture, identity and Otherness served as a template for modern colonialist ideology. Besides mapping the multi-layered Western imperial consciousness, the book probes Europe's anti-colonial tradition. It integrates the discussion of modernist literature with a critique of European post-Enlightenment philosophical concepts. In this interdisciplinary study, Achera̐ou addresses both ancient and modern canonical texts, and offers insightful textual analyses of works by Aristotle, Plato, Rudyard Kipling, Rider Haggard, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, Andř Gide and Albert Camus
1 online resource (x, 250 pages)
9780230583573, 9786611976125, 0230583571, 6611976124
315138620
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART 1
COLONIALIST DISCOURSE: A RHETORICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL PALIMPSEST
Modern Europe and Classical Connections
Imperial Ideology: Between Totality and Differentiation
Impact of Classical Discourse of Barbarism on Modern Colonial Taxonomies
Colonialism: From Hegemony to Infantilism
Modernist Writers, Classical Ideal, and Empire
PART II
MODERNIST LITERATURE AND COLONIALISM: BETWEEN CONTEXT AND COMPLICITY
Modernism, Modernity and Imperialism
Culture, Civilisation and Inter-Racial Encounters: Joseph Conrad's Almayers' Folly
Redeeming the Colonial Idea: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Pedagogy of Re-Colonialisation of the Peaceful Re-Conquest: Andre Gide's Voyage au Congo
Split Between Radical Rhetoric and Conservative Practices: Graham Greene's Journey Without Maps
Getting out of the 'Nightmares' of History and 'Stiff' Imperial Culture: Albert Camus
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
English