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Nicholas Harrison

    Our Civilizing Mission
    Postcolonial Criticism
    • 2019

      Our Civilizing Mission

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Our Civilizing Mission is both an exploration of colonial education and a response to current anxieties about the foundations of the `humanities'. Focusing on the example of Algeria, it asks what can be learned by treating colonial education not just as an example of colonialism but as a provocative, uncomfortable example of education.

      Our Civilizing Mission
    • 2003

      Postcolonial Criticism

      • 232 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      An accessible and practical guide to postcolonial criticism. Combines innovative insights with clear and practical definitions of key concepts. Tackles the 'biga questions in postcolonial studies in a common--sense manner that avoids jargon and excessive theorizing. schovat popis

      Postcolonial Criticism