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For many years Professor Parry worked as an independent critic writing books and essays on the literature of the British Empire, and more recently on colonial discourse and the postcolonial discussion. Born in South Africa and resident in the United Kingdom since 1958, Benita Parry is Honorary Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique oﬀers an invaluable framework upon which to build such a future. What then is the future of postcolonialism? Parry concludes with the compelling argument that theoretical work must strive to join remembrance of the material past with a critique of the contemporary condition, remaining unreconciled to the past and unconsoled by the present. While acknowledging the signiﬁcance of much work done under the emblem of postcolonial studies, Parry argues throughout that the material impulses of colonialism, its appropriation of physical resources, exploitation of human labour and institutional repression have too long been allowed to recede from view. These not only demonstrate her theoretical position at work, but also give new dimensions to widely studied texts by Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, H. Parry then turns to literature with a series of detailed textual and contextual readings of wellknown texts. This is followed by a series of essays that vigorously challenge colonial discourse theory and postcolonialism as we have known them.

In a ﬁrst, introductory chapter, Benita Parry outlines the historical and personal contexts from which her work has emerged and points to ‘directions and dead ends’ in the ﬁeld she has helped to shape. It constitutes a trenchant critique of the textualism that has dominated the ﬁeld and proposes alternative critical and reading practices more attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions.

This volume presents a powerful selection of reprinted and new essays by one of the most important critics in postcolonial studies.

Creeper world 3 arc eternal colonial space