
Author/Contributor(s): | Kadir, Djelal |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Date: | 01/15/1992 |
Binding: | Hardcover |
Condition: | NEW |
The language of prophecy and divine predestination fills the pronouncements of those who ventured across the Atlantic. The effects of such language and their implications for current theoretical debates about colonialism and decolonization are legion. Kadir suggests that in this supposedly postcolonial era, richer nations and the privileged still manipulate the rhetoric of conquest to justify and serve their own worldly ends. For colonized peoples who live today at the "ends of the earth," the age of exploitation may be no different from the age of exploration.