Falling into History: Postcolonialism and Fin-de-siècle in Ene Mihkelson’s Nime vaev Cover Image

Falling into History: Postcolonialism and Fin-de-siècle in Ene Mihkelson’s Nime vaev
Falling into History: Postcolonialism and Fin-de-siècle in Ene Mihkelson’s Nime vaev

Author(s): Tiina Kirss
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

Summary/Abstract: The term “post-colonial” as it is used by critics such as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Homi K. Bhabha, to name a few, has come to identify an area of interdisciplinary scholarship on cultural production in the former colonies of the British and French empires in Africa, Asia, India, and the Caribbean. Its conceptual framework is drawn from post-structuralist literary theory and “cultural studies” of the Birmingham school, but as Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman outline in the introduction to their anthology, post-colonial discourse analysis engages in ongoing dialogue with specific key intertexts…

  • Issue Year: V/2000
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 131-151
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: English