Rethinking Postcolonialism

1. Introduction
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Part I. Colonialist Discourse: A Rhetorical and Ideological Palimpsest

2. Modern Europe and Classical Connections
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3. Imperial Ideology: Between Totality and Differentiation
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4. Impact of Classical Discourse of Barbarism on Modern Colonial Taxonomies
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5. Colonialism: From Hegemony to Infantilism
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6. Modernist Writers, Classical Ideal and Empire
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Part II. Modernist Literature and Colonialism: Between Contest and Complicity

7. Modernism, Modernity and Imperialism
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8. Culture, Civilisation and Inter-Racial Encounters: Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly
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9. Redeeming the Colonial Idea: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
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10. Pedagogy of Re-Colonisation or the Peaceful Re-Conquest: André Gide’s Voyage au Congo
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11. Split Between Radical Rhetoric and Conservative Practices: Graham Greene’s Journey Without Maps
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12. Getting Out of the ‘Nightmares’ of History and ‘Stiff’ Imperial Culture: Albert Camus
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13. Conclusion
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Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature