{"product_id":"posts-and-pasts-alfred-j-lzepez-9780791449943","title":"Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeconstructs the field of postcolonial studies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alfred J. López\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791449947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791449943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.86w x 0.58d","brand":"Alfred J. López","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096725266687,"sku":"9780791449943","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/posts-and-pasts-alfred-j-lzepez-9780791449943","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}