Through close readings of works by writers like C. L. R. James, Salman Rushdie, Ama Ata Aidoo, Michelle Cliff, and Hanif Kureishi, Using the Master’s Tools examines instances of textual resistance elaborated within imperial/metropolitan epistemologies and ideologies. In her analysis, Anuradha Needham focuses especially on each writer’s historical location, personal and political affiliations, presumed audiences, and position on gender as integral contextual determinants of the strategies of textual resistance each deploys. Drawing on the extensive scholarship on “subaltern” and anti-colonial resistances in a number of disciplines, this book demonstrates the mutual interactions of (general) theory with (specific) practice such that each is enriched, extended, and refurbished.
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"Needham... contributes insights and arguments that are genuinely new. Striking a rare balance between theory and detailed criticism of literary texts..." --Choice
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Anuradha Dingwaney Needham is Associate Professor of English at Oberlin College.
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Despite the call for a "proliferation of historically nuanced theories and strategies; despite talk about "traditions"' as "invented" entities that entail a "selective remembering and forgetting of the past that undergirds group identity"; despite the recognition that histories and identities are constructed; despite the call not to "give in to the rigidity and interdictions of those self-imposed limitations that come with race, moment or milieu; despite (or, perhaps, because of) all these, a significant strand in discussions of anti-colonial resistance, whether in homeland or diaspora, often pits singular notions of dispersed and colonized (African, Indian, or Caribbean) peoples' national identity and cultural authenticity against the discourses and values that authorize the power of the West. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pickled pig parts, crossroads character, imperial metropole, border intellectual, revolutionary identity, diasporic peoples, same topos, dominant history, dominant accounts, reverse discourse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Using the Master's Tools, The Rainbow Sign, The Black Jacobins, West Indian, San Domingo, West Indies, Michelle Cliff, Black Marxism, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Our Sister Killjoy, United States, Clare Savage, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jonathan Dollimore, Matthew Bondsman, Outside the Whale, Amilcar Cabral, Diaspora Culture, Homi Bhabha, Jean Jacques Dessalines, Lifafa Das, Vanity Fair, William Methwold New!
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Despite the call for a "proliferation of historically nuanced theories and strategies; despite talk about "traditions"' as "invented" entities that entail a "selective remembering and forgetting of the past that undergirds group identity"; despite the recognition that histories and identities are constructed; despite the call not to "give in to the rigidity and interdictions of those self-imposed limitations that come with race, moment or milieu; despite (or, perhaps, because of) all these, a significant strand in discussions of anti-colonial resistance, whether in homeland or diaspora, often pits singular notions of dispersed and colonized (African, Indian, or Caribbean) peoples' national identity and cultural authenticity against the discourses and values that authorize the power of the West. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pickled pig parts, crossroads character, imperial metropole, border intellectual, revolutionary identity, diasporic peoples, same topos, dominant history, dominant accounts, reverse discourse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Using the Master's Tools, The Rainbow Sign, The Black Jacobins, West Indian, San Domingo, West Indies, Michelle Cliff, Black Marxism, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Our Sister Killjoy, United States, Clare Savage, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jonathan Dollimore, Matthew Bondsman, Outside the Whale, Amilcar Cabral, Diaspora Culture, Homi Bhabha, Jean Jacques Dessalines, Lifafa Das, Vanity Fair, William Methwold New!
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- No Telephone to Heaven by Michelle Cliff on 9 pages
- Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo on 8 pages
- Beyond A Boundary by C. L. R. James on 7 pages
- No Sweetness Here and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo on 7 pages
- The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi on 5 pages
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- Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain by Susheila Nasta in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Comparative Criticism: Volume 23, Humanist Traditions in the Twentieth Century: An Annual Journal by E. S. Shaffer in Back Matter
- Jewish Frontiers: Essays on Bodies, Histories, and Identities by Dr. Sander L. Gilman in Back Matter
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