DECOLONIZING CULTURE: TOWARD A THEORY FOR POSTCOLONIAL WOMEN'S TEXTS.
This article focuses on decolonizing postcolonial theory. The author examines several disconcerting trends in the recent production and consumption of postcolonial theory in general in order to decolonize this terrain and then to propose a historically situated method of approaching the work of wome...
| Publicado en: | Modern Fiction Studies Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 157 - 180 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Soring1989
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