De-Scribing Empire: Post-Colonialism and Textuality

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 9
Notes on contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
INTRODUCTION The textuality of Empire......Page 14
THE SCRAMBLE FOR POST-COLONIALISM......Page 28
EXCESS Post-colonialism and the verandahs of meaning......Page 46
SOME PROBLEMS OF RESPONSE TO EMPIRE IN SETTLER POST-COLONIAL SOCIETIES......Page 58
THEORIZING RACISM......Page 74
THE MYTH OF AUTHENTICITY Representation, discourse and social practice......Page 83
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH AND THE CENSOR......Page 99
DE-SCRIBING ORALITY Performance and the recuperation of voice......Page 111
INSCRIBING THE EMPTINESS Cartography, exploration and the construction of Australia......Page 128
THE UNFINISHED COMMONWEALTH Boundaries of civility in popular Australian fiction of the first Commonwealth decade......Page 144
'THE SOFTEST DISORDER' Representing cultural indeterminacy......Page 154
'THE ONLY FREE PEOPLE IN THE EMPIRE' Gender difference in colonial discourse......Page 165
DE-SCRIBING THE WATER-BABIES 'The child' in post-colonial theory......Page 184
MODERNITY, VOICE, AND WINDOW-BREAKING Jean Rhys's 'Let them call it jazz'......Page 198
SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE London, Cambridge and the Caribbean......Page 214
THE SPEAKING ABJECT The impossible possible world of realized Empire......Page 231
CONCLUSION Reading difference......Page 243
Bibliography......Page 249
Index......Page 263