This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book analyses black Atlantic studies, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory, providing paradigms for understanding imperial literature, Englishness and black transnationalism. Its concerns range from the metropolitan centre of Conrad’s
Heart of Darkness to fatherhood in Du Bois’s
The Souls of Black Folk; from the marketing of South African literature to cosmopolitanism in Achebe; and from utopian discourse in Parry to Jameson’s theorisation of empire.
Table of Content
Introduction Part I Imperialism 1 Tale of the city: the imperial metropolis of Heart of Darkness 2 Gendering imperialism: Anne Mc Clintock and H. Rider Haggard 3 Empire’s culture in Fredric Jameson, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak Part II Transnationalism and race 4 Journeying to death: Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic 5 Black Atlantic nationalism: Sol Plaatje and W.E.B. Du Bois 6 Transnational productions of Englishness: South Africa in the post-imperial metropole Part III Postcolonial theoretical politics 7 Theorising race, racism and culture: David Lloyd’s work 8 Robert Young and the ironic authority of postcolonial criticism 9 Cultural studies in the new South Africa 10 ‘The Killer That Doesn’t Pay Back’: Chinua Achebe’s critique of cosmopolitics 11 You can get there from here: critique and utopia in Benita Parry’s thought
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