Postcolonial contraventions

Laura Chrisman provides important new paradigms for understanding imperial literature, Englishness, and black transnationalism. Her concerns take her from the metropolitan center of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, to Frederic Jameson's theorization of empire. Laura Chrisman provides important new paradigms for understanding imperial literature, Englishness, and black transnationalism. Her concerns take her from the metropolitan center of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, to Frederic Jameson's theorization of empire.

Both polemical and scholarly, this text is challenging in its analysis of black Atlantic studies, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory. Chrisman provides important paradigms for understanding imperial literature, Englishness, and black transnationalism.