Rethinking Postcolonialism: Colonialist Discourse in Modern Literatures and the Legacy of Classical Writers

Rethinking Postcolonialism Challenges Postcolonial Discourse Analysis And Proposes A New Model Of Interpretation That Resituates The Historical, Ideological And Conceptual Denseness Of The Colonial Idea. It Questions Key Issues, Including Hybridity, Otherness And Territoriality, And Expands The Postcolonial Field By Introducing Valuable, Ground-breaking Theoretical Concepts: Colonialism-as-grafting, Colonialist Discourse As A Rhetorical And Ideological Palimpsest, Metissage As The Space Of The Impossible.--jacket. Pt. I. Colonialist Discourse : A Rhetorical And Ideological Palimpsest -- 1. Modern Europe And Classical Connections -- 2. Imperial Ideology : Between Totality And Differentiation -- 3. Impact Of Classical Discourse Of Barbarism On Modern Colonial Taxonomies -- 4. Colonialism : From Hegemony To Infantilism -- 5. Modernist Writers, Classical Ideal And Empire -- Pt. Ii. Modernist Literature And Colonialism : Between Contest And Complicity -- 6. Modernism, Modernity And Imperialism -- 7. Culture, Civilisation And Inter-racial Encounters : Joseph Conrad's Almayer's Folly -- 8. Redeeming The Colonial Idea : Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness -- 9. Pedagogy Of Re-colonisation Or The Peaceful Re-conquest : André Gide's Voyage Au Congo -- 10. Split Between Radical Rhetoric And Conservative Practices : Graham Greene's Journey Without Maps -- 11. Getting Out Of The 'nightmares' Of History And 'stiff' Imperial Culture : Albert Camus. Amar Acheraïou. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 220-244) And Index.