A Companion to Postcolonial Studies: Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
Autor H Schwarzen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 oct 2004
- Ranges widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study
- Presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia
- Provides clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European colonization
- Features introductory essays on the major thinkers and intellectual schools that have informed strategies of national liberation worldwide
- Offers an incisive summary of the long history and theory of modern European colonization in local detail and global scale
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ISBN-10: 0631206639
Pagini: 636
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 34 mm
Greutate: 1.08 kg
Editura: Wiley
Seria Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom
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Students of literary and cultural studies, studying postcolonialismDescriere
This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947.
Ranging widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study today, the volume presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia. Their contributions provide clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, separate regions affected by European colonization, and introductory essays on the major thinkers and intellectual schools that have informed strategies of national liberation worldwide.
This volume is unique in providing an incisive summary of the long history and theory of modern European colonization in local detail and global scale. It will be a necessary reference tool for years to come.
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This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947.
Ranging widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study today, the volume presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia. Their contributions provide clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, separate regions affected by European colonization, and introductory essays on the major thinkers and intellectual schools that have informed strategies of national liberation worldwide.
This volume is unique in providing an incisive summary of the long history and theory of modern European colonization in local detail and global scale. It will be a necessary reference tool for years to come.
Cuprins
List of Contributors ix
Foreword: Upon Reading the Companion to Postcolonial Studies xv
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Acknowledgments xxiii
Mission Impossible: Introducing Postcolonial Studies in the US Academy 1
Henry Schwarz
Part I: Historical and Theoretical Issues 21
1 Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 23
Neil Larsen
2 Postcolonial Feminism/Postcolonialism and Feminism 53
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and You–me Park
3 Heterogeneity and Hybridity: Colonial Legacy, Postcolonial Heresy 72
David Theo Goldberg
4 Postcolonialism and Postmodernism 87
Ato Quayson
5 Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism 112
Jenny Sharpe
6 Global Capital and Transnationalism 126
Crystal Bartolovich
Part II: The Local and the Global 163
7 A Vindication of Double Consciousness 165
Doris Sommer
8 Human Understanding and (Latin) American Interests The Politics and Sensibilities of Geohistorical Locations 180
Walter D. Mignolo
9 US Imperialism: Global Dominance without Colonies 203
Donald E. Pease
10 Indigenousness and Indigeneity 221
Jace Weaver
11 Creolization, Orality, and Nation Language in the Caribbean 236
Supriya Nair
12 Middle–class Consciousness and Patriotic Literature in South Asia 252
Sumit Sarkar
13 Africa: Varied Colonial Legacies 269
Tejumola Olaniyan
14 The Middle East ? Or . . . /Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial Predicament 282
Magda M. Al–Nowaihi
15 King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the Handover from the USA 304
Rey Chow
16 Japan and East Asia 319
Sandra Buckley
17 Intellectuals, Theosophy, and Failed Narratives of the Nation in Late Colonial Java 333
Laurie J. Sears
18 Settler Colonies 360
Anna Johnston and Alan Lawson
19 Ireland After History 377
David Lloyd
20 Global Disjunctures, Diasporic Differences, and the New World (Dis–)Order 396
Ali Behdad
21 Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender 410
Geeta Patel
Part III: The Inventiveness of Theory 429
22 Humanism in Question: Fanon and Said 431
Anthony C. Alessandrini
23 Spivak and Bhabha 451
Bart Moore–Gilbert
24 A Small History of Subaltern Studies 467
Dipesh Chakrabarty
25 Feminist Theory in Perspective 486
Ipshita Chanda
26 Global Gay Formations amd Local Homosexualities 508
Katie King
Part IV: Cultural Studies and the Accommodation of Postcolonialism 521
27 Rethinking English: Postcolonial English Studies 523
Gaurav Desai
28 Postcolonial Legality 540
Upendra Baxi
29 Race, Gender, Class, Postcolonialism: Toward a New Humanistic Paradigm? 556
Bruce Robbins
Postscript: Popular Perceptions of Postcolonial Studies after 9/11 574
Sangeeta Ray
Index 584
Recenzii
Notă biografică
Henry Schwarz is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University, He is author of Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India (1997) and co–editor of Reading the Shape of the World: Toward an International Cultural Studies (1996) and Contributions to Bengal Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Approach (1998). He has published in literary theory, cultural studies, Indian literature, and English imperialism. He is currently US Regional Editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
Sangeeta Ray is currently the Director of the Asian American Studies program at the University of Maryland as well as Associate Professor in the English Department. She has published extensively on feminist postcolonial issues. She is author of En–Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives (1999).