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Using the Master's Tools Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

Using the Master's Tools By Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

Using the Master's Tools by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

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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, this book examines instances of textual resistance elaborated within imperial/metropolitan epistemologies and ideologies.

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Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

Through close readings of works by writers like C.L.R. James, Salman Rushdie, Ama Ata Aidoo, Michelle Cliff, and Hanif Kureishi, this book examines instances of textual resistance elaborated within imperial/metropolitan epistemologies and ideologies. It focuses especially on each writer's historical location, personal and political affiliations, presumed audiences, and her/his position on gender as integral contextual determinants of the strategies of textual resistance each deploys.

About Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

ANURADHA DINGWANEY NEEDHAM is Associate Professor of English at Oberlin College.

Table of Contents

PART I - In, But Not of, the West: Repetition, Appropriation, Re-Visions of Dominant Colonial Knowledges - Inhabiting the Metropole: C.L.R. James's 'Grand Narratives' of Resistance and Emancipation - Re-Playing the Indian Subcontinent: Salman Rushdie's Method(s) of Critique - PART II - Return(s) to the Native Land: The Politics of Cultural Nationalism - Reversing Europe's Gaze: Ama Ata Aidoo's Oppositional Art - 'Retracing the African Part of Ourselves': Blackness as Revolutionary Consciousness and Identity in Michelle Cliff. - PART III - In and of the (Imperial) Metropole - 'A New Way of Being British': Hanif Kureishi's (Necessary) Defence of Mixtures and Heterogeneity

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Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham
Anuradha Dingwaney Needham
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Palgrave Macmillan
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