Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas (Hardcover)

by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham (Author) "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..." (more)
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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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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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Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st edition (May 19, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312225423
• ISBN-13: 978-0312225421
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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