Friends and Enemies: The Scribal Politics of Post/colonial Liter

Friends and EnemiesThe Scribal Politics of Post/Colonial Literature\nAuthor(s): Chris Bongie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781846311420, 978-1846311420\nSynopsis\nIn this timely contribution to debates about the future of postcolonial theory groundbreaking scholar Chris Bongie explores the troubled relationship between postcolonial theory and politics, both in the sense of a radical, revolutionary politics associated with anti-colonial struggle, and the almost inevitable implication of literary writers in institutional discourses of power. The book builds directly on Bongies Islands and Exiles (Stanford UP, 1998), which was described by the eminent Caribbeanist Peter Hulme as a book that may well be the greatest single contribution yet to expanding the field of postcolonial studies.\n\nBongie explores the commemoration and commodification of the post/colonial using early nineteenth-century C.