Beschreibung:
This bookbrings forth a new contribution to the study of imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial power.
Introduction 1. Imperial Interpellations: Signifying the West's Scene of Writing 2. In the Name-of-the-Father: Imperial Mastery, Paternity, and Settlement 3. Signifying Bodies: Slavery and the Writing of Western Nationhood in Postcolonial Americas 4. Postcolonial Modernity and the Fantasies of Universality 5. Meaning in Movement: Empire, Postcoloniality and Late Capitalism Conclusion