Late Imperial Culture

Name: Late Imperial Culture
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ISBN: 9781859840504

ISBN-10: 1859840507

ISBN-13: 9781859840504

Edition: 1995

Authors: Roman De La Campa, E. Ann Kaplan, Michael Sprinker

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Spanning time and space from late Victorian Britain and Ireland to postwar America and Latin America, Late Imperial Culture maps crucial regions in the terrain of imperial cultural practices including theater, film, photography, fiction, autobiography, and body art. The forms reviewed in this lively collection range from those which accept and reproduce empire’s dominant self-images to scathing critiques of the oppressions that colonialism has visited upon its subjects and the price it continues to exact from them.A diverse range of theoretically sophisticated and historically informed contributors take as given two fundamental facts about the culture of imperialism: firstly, that it has a…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 5/17/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Michael Sprinker was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the History of Historical Materialism and History and Ideology in Proust arealso published by Verso. Together with Mike Davis, he founded Verso'sHaymarket Series and guided it until his death in 1999.



Acknowledgements


Introduction


Notes



Postcolonialism: What's in a Name?


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'Getting to Know You': Travel, Gender, and the Politics of Representation in Anna and the King of Siam and The King and I


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'Dark Enough fur Any Man': Bram Stoker's Sexual Ethnology and the Question of Irish Nationalism


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Notes on 'Activist Photography' Steven Cagan


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Eurocentrism, Polycentrism, and Multicultural Pedagogy: Film and the Quincentennial


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Postmodernism and Revolution: A Central American Case Study Romï¿½n de la Campa


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Refugees and Homecomings: Bessie Head and the End of Exile


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The Struggle Over Representation: Casting, Coalitions, and the Politics of Identification


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Performing in the Postcolony: The Plays of Mustapha Matura


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Piercings


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Index