ABSTRACT
De-Scribing Empire is a stunning collection of first-class essays. Collectively they examine the formative role of books, writing and textuality in imperial control and the fashioning of colonial world-views. The volume as a whole puts forward strategies for understanding and neutralising that control, and as such is a major contribution to the field. It will be invaluable for students in post-colonialist criticism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I POST-COLONIAL THEORY
part |2 pages
Part II RACE AND REPRESENTATION
part |2 pages
Part III READING EMPIRE
chapter 8|16 pages
INSCRIBING THE EMPTINESS Cartography, exploration and the construction of
Cartography, exploration and the construction of Australia
chapter 9|10 pages
THE UNFINISHED COMMONWEALTH
Boundaries of civility in popular Australian fiction of the first Commonwealth decade
part |2 pages
Part IV RE-WRITING AND RE-READING EMPIRE