Using The Masters Tools: Resistance And The Literature Of The African And South Asian Diasporas

Using The Masters Tools: Resistance And The Literature Of The African And South Asian Diasporas

Product Description Through close readings of works by writers like C. L. R. James, Salman Rushdie, Ama Ata Aidoo, Michelle Cliff, and Hanif Kureishi, Using the Master s Tools examines instances of textual resistance elaborated within imperial/metropolitan epistemologies and ideologies. In her analysis, Anuradha Needham focuses especially on each writer s historical location, personal and political affiliations, presumed audiences, and position on gender as integral contextual determinants of the strategies of textual resistance each deploys. Drawing on the extensive scholarship on subaltern and anti-colonial resistances in a number of disciplines, this book demonstrates the mutual interactions of (general) theory with (specific) practice such that each is enriched, extended, and refurbished. Review Needham... contributes insights and arguments that are genuinely new. Striking a rare balance between theory and detailed criticism of literary texts... --Choice About the Author Anuradha Dingwaney Needham is Associate Professor of English at Oberlin College.