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Exploring, amongst other themes, representations of the other, strategies adopted to resist such representations, the issues of identity, nationalism, colonialism, feminism, subaltern studies and the English language within the context of Empire, this book projects a study of post-colonialism through the work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

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Acknowledgements Preface PART I Post-Colonialism and Postmodernism A Four-Hundred Year Old Woman The Greatest Gift of Deconstruction Spivak and the Literary Canon PART II English in the Clamped Mortar of Empire Identity Nationalism PART III For Language, Against Style Utopian in a World Without Utopia The Complicity between Post-Colonialism and Imperialism Feminism and the Risks of High Theory Conclusion Bibliography Index

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TAOUFIQ SAKHKHANE is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the College of Arts and Human Sciences Fes-Sais, Morocco, and a translator of texts from English into Arabic.

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