After Colonialism: African Postmodernism and Magical Realism

Writing at front in pencil).What comes after colonialism? Is there such a thing as a truly postcolonial or post-imperial being or state? These questions boggle the mind, for whilst most ordinary people have always lived at least partially within but beyond empires and nations, it is difficult to conceive of a time or a place when empires and nations and their effects have ceased to exist. In other words, to think of the truly postcolonial is an imaginative activity, for the human past, present and foreseeable future are dominated by colonies and empires of all kinds. If the postcolonial requires imagination, then what is the imagination? This is the question that propelled this book.

Softcover. English. Witwatersrand University Press. 2006. ISBN: 1868144240. 346 pp. In good condition. Book No: 45855