The postcolonial aura : Third World criticism in the age of global capitalism / Arif Dirlik.

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, [1997], ©1997.

xiii, 252 pages ; 24 cm

Introduction: postcoloniality and the perspective of history -- Culturalism as hegemonic ideology and liberating practice -- The postcolonial aura: Third World criticism in the age of Global Capitalism -- The global in the local -- Chinese history and the question of Orientalism -- There is more in the Rim than meets the eye: thoughts on the "Pacific idea" -- Three worlds or one, or many? the reconfiguration of global relations under contemporary capitalism -- Postcolonial or postrevolutionary? the problem of history in postcolonial criticism -- The postmodernization of production and its organization: flexible production, work and culture -- The past as legacy and project: postcolonial criticism in the perspective of indigenous historicism.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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