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Alfred J. Lopez May 16, 2001
SUNY Press
English - 292 pages - ISBN-10: 0791449947 - ISBN-13: 9780791449943
In Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism, Alfred J. Lopez argues for a formulation of postcolonial studies which diverges in three significant ways from current academic and institutional practices: 1) the postcolonial as diasporic, constituted by a series of dispersed and irregular criticisms not at all containable within a single set of parameters, whether historical, geographical, or socioeconomic; 2) the postcolonial as a distinct ontological moment in the life of a nation or people, in which it conceives itself as doubly haunted--on the one hand by the "memory in advance" of a collective national future and on the other by its colonial past; and 3) the postcolonial as a distinct phenomenological moment, a radical break in the history of a relation between lords and bonds-women and -men. Going further than previous studies to address the postcolonial as a diasporic body of texts and discourses, it looks at a remarkable variety of writers--Joseph Conrad, Wilson Harris, Jose Marti, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Michelle Cliff, J. M. Coetzee, Franz Fanon, Gabriel Marcia Marquez, and Salman Rushdie.
Reviews
Ryan Simpson
This is one of the best books that I have read so far in my life. You won't be disappointed.
Ryan Craig
Nice It has a nice story about how to always let go the past and fall in love.
Demotte Demotte
It was damn awesome, sweet, the way of describing the romance was just marvellous
