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In this timely contribution to debates about the future of postcolonial theory, groundbreaking scholar Chris Bongie explores the troubled relationship between postcolonial theory and 'politics', both in the sense of a radical, revolutionary politics associated with anti-colonial struggle, and the almost inevitable implication of literary writers in institutional discourses of power. The book builds directly on Bongie's "Islands and Exiles" (Stanford UP, 1998), which was described by the eminent Caribbeanist Peter Hulme as a book that 'may well be the greatest single contribution yet to expanding the field of postcolonial studies.'Bongie explores the commemoration and commodification of the post/colonial using early nineteenth-century Caribbean texts alongside contemporary works. Taking Haiti as a key example he writes lucidly of the processes by which Haiti's world-historical revolution has been commemorated both in the colonial era and in our own postcolonial age - an age in which it is increasingly difficult to separate the reality of memories of anti-colonial resistance from the processes of commodification through which alone those memories can now be thought.Never less than stimulating and frequently controversial, "Friends and Enemies" is likely to provoke new debates among scholars of postcolonial theory, Caribbean studies, francophone literature and culture, and nineteenth century French studies.

Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Caribbean Area --- History of civilization --- Caribbean area --- ETUDES POSTCOLONIALES = POST COLONIAL STUDIES --- COLONIES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- Postcolonialisme --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- POLITIQUE ET LITTERATURE --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- Colonies

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Said, Edward W. --- 82:32 --- Literatuur en politiek --- 82:32 Literatuur en politiek --- Criticism --- Politics and literature --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Political aspects --- Said, Edward Wadie --- Aiḍvarḍ Saʻīd --- Saʻīd, Aiḍvarḍ --- Saʻīd, Idwārd W. --- Saidŭ --- Sayide, Aidehua --- סעיד, אדוארד --- سعيد، إدوارد --- سعيد، إدوارد و. --- سعيد، ادورد --- 薩依德艾德華 --- Said, Eduardo --- Colonial studies --- Imperialism --- Orientalism

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Deep hiStories represents the first substantial publication on gender and colonialism in Southern Africa in recent years, and suggests methodological ways forward for a post-apartheid and postcolonial generation of scholars. The volume's theorizing, which is based on Southern African regional material, is certain to impact on international debates on gender - debates which have shifted from earlier feminisms towards theorizations which include sexual difference, subjectivities, colonial (and postcolonial) discourses and the politics of representation. Deep hiStories goes beyond the dichotomies which have largely characterized the discussion of women and gender in Africa, and explores alternative models of interpretation such as 'genealogies of voice'. These 'genealogies' transcend the conventional binaries of visibility and invisibility, speaking and silence. Works covering South Africa from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and Zimbabwe, Namibia and Cameroon in the twentieth include: • Colonial readings of Foucault • Ideologies of domesticity • Torture and testimony of slave women • Women as missionary targets • Gender and the public sphere • Race, science and spectacle • Male nursing on mines • Infanticide, insanity and social control • Fertility and the postcolonial state • Literary reconstructions of the past • Gender-blending and code-switching • De/colonizing the queer The collection includes diverse research on the body in Southern Africa for the first time. It brings new subtleties to the ongoing debates on culture, civility and sexuality, dealing centrally with constructions of race and whiteness in history and literature. It is an important resource for teachers and students of gender and colonial studies.

Afrique australe --- History of civilization --- South Africa --- Sex role --- Women --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Femmes --- Social conditions. --- Conditions sociales --- Africa, Southern --- Colonization --- History. --- Colonisation --- Histoire --- Social conditions --- Imperialism --- Land settlement --- Colonies --- Decolonization --- Emigration and immigration --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- Colonial studies --- South africa

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Where should we situate the British Empire in the larger picture of world history? This fifth and final volume of The Oxford History of the British Empire shows how opinions have changed dramatically over the generations about the nature, role, and value of imperialism generally, and the British Empire more specifically.In these pages, a distinguished team of scholarly contributors discuss the many and diverse elements that have influenced writings on the Empire. Topics in this vein include the pressure of current events, access to primary sources, the creation of relevant university chairs, the rise of nationalism in former colonies, decolonization, and the Cold War. The chapters aim to demonstrate how the study of empire has evolved from a narrow focus on constitutional issues to a wide-ranging, multi-faceted inquiry into international relations, the uses of power, and the influences and counter-influences between settler groups and native peoples. The result is a thought-provoking cultural and intellectual discourse on how we understand the past, and whether this understanding might affect the way we behave in the future.About the seriesThe Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. It deals with the interaction of British and non-western societies from the Elizabethan era to the late twentieth century, aiming to provide a balanced treatment of the ruled as well as the rulers, and to take into account the significance of the Empire for the peoples of the British Isles. All five of the volumes in this series fully explore economic and social trends as well as political ones.

942.05/06 --- Imperialism --- -Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- 942.05/06 Geschiedenis van Engeland en Groot-Brittannië--?.05/06 --- Geschiedenis van Engeland en Groot-Brittannië--?.05/06 --- History --- Great Britain --- Colonies --- -History. --- History. --- Imperialism - History --- Great Britain - Colonies - History --- Impérialisme --- Histoire --- Grande-Bretagne --- 942.07 --- 942.07 Geschiedenis van Engeland--(1714-1837) --- Geschiedenis van Engeland--(1714-1837) --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1800-1899 --- -History --- GREAT BRITAIN --- IMPERIALISM --- BRITISH HISTORY --- CULTURAL STUDIES --- COLONIAL STUDIES --- SLAVERY --- COLONIES --- HISTORY --- EMPIRE --- COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES