By Bill Ashcroft, Hussein Kadhim

Contents: Horizons in Post-Colonial experiences; creation; putting Edward acknowledged: area Time and the traveling Theorist; not anything within the submit? -- stated and the matter of Post-Colonial Intellectuals; Edward stated and/versus Raymond Williams; Worldliness; Orientalism as Post-Imperial Witnessing; Europe's Occidentalisms; The Evolution of Orientalism and Africanist Political technological know-how; Post-Colonialism as Neo-Orientalism: Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy; the location of reminiscence; Index.

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Although Ngugi is able to critique Achebe's unwarranted generalising of his own petit-bourgeois experience to represent the nation as a whole, he remains, for Amove, unable to recognise the problems caused by "the effacement of his class position in an idealization of his relationship to 'the people'" (286) Amove goes on to say: It is precisely in this context - the competition within a field for a dominant position, with the recognition and cultural capital (convertible to economic capital through the institutions of publishing, teaching, lecturing and awardgranting) it confers - that Ngugi's and Achebe's 'position-takings'...

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Far more tragically, "the Palestinian experience," as Said calls it in The Question of Palestine (ix), involves ongoing war, genocide, and the direct, continuing imperialist appropriation of territory from the Palestinian Arabs by Israel, with the backing of American and European mass media, financial, and military support. While capitalism and class conflict in the industrial era are central to Williams's analyses of the dynamics of British "culture and society," for Said imperialism takes priority, and not just because of his own experience as a Palestinian.

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