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Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 1118781007
- ISBN-13:
- 9781118781005
- Pub. Date:
- 09/28/2015
- Publisher:
- Wiley
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Overview
- Brings fresh insight and renewed political energy to established domains such as nation, history, literature, and gender
- Engages with contemporary concerns such as globalization, digital cultures, neo-colonialism, and language debates
- Includes wide geographical coverage – from Ireland and India to Israel and Palestine
- Provides uniquely broad coverage, offering a full sense of the tradition, including significant essays on science, technology and development, education and literacy, digital cultures, and transnationalism
- Edited by a distinguished postcolonial scholar, this insightful volume serves scholars and students across multiple disciplines from literary and cultural studies, to anthropology and digital studies
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ISBN-13: | 9781118781005 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 09/28/2015 |
Pages: | 688 |
Product dimensions: | 6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.10(d) |
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Table of Contents
Preface xAcknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part 1 Framing the Postcolonial 13
1 The Fact of Blackness 15Frantz Fanon
2 Introduction to Orientalism 33Edward Said
3 Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse 53Homi K. Bhabha
4 Scattered Speculations on the Subaltern and the Popular 60Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
5 Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism 71Fredric Jameson
6 Jameson’s Rhetoric of Otherness and the “National Allegory” 91Aijaz Ahmad
7 Re-Orientalism: The Perpetration and Development of Orientalism by Orientals 110Lisa Lau
8 Postcolonial Remains 125Robert JC Young
9 Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change 144Dipesh Chakrabarty
Part 2 The Question of History and Historical Subjects 159
10 Historylessness: Australia as a Settler Colonial Collective 161Lorenzo Veracini
11 Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization 175Fernando Coronil
12 History Without a Cause? Grand Narratives, World History, and the Postcolonial Dilemma 193Barbara Weinstein
13 “Africa As an Alien Future”: The Middle Passage, Afrofuturism, and Postcolonial Waterworlds 211Ruth Mayer
Part 3 Language, Literacy, Education 223
14 On English from India: Prepositions to Post-Positions 225K. Narayana Chandran
15 Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want from Writing? 239Scott Richard Lyons
16 Histories of Publishing under Apartheid: Oxford University Press in South Africa 258Caroline Davis
17 Re-ethicizing the Classroom: Pedagogy, the Public Sphere, and the Postcolonial Condition 281Ajay Heble
Part 4 Nation, Space, Identity 295
18 Whiteness in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe: The Time of The Gypsies, The End of Race 297Anikó Imre
19 Asian Canadian Futures: Diasporic Passages and the Routes of Indenture 316Lily Cho
20 Ireland, Empire and Utopia: Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse 331Eóin Flannery
21 Narrative Agency and Thinking about Conflicts 354Nandana Dutta
22 The Ballad of the Sad Café: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the Post/colonial Question 370Rebecca L. Stein
Part 5 Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism 385
23 Cosmopolitanism and the De-colonial Option 387Walter D. Mignolo
24 Solidarity and Spheres of Culture: The Cosmopolitan and the Postcolonial 405Vivienne Jabri
25 Literature/Identity: Transnationalism, Narrative and Representation 418Arif Dirlik
26 The Limits of Cultural Hybridity: On Ritual Monsters, Poetic Licence and Contested Postcolonial Purifications 438Pnina Werbner
Part 6 Gender and Sexuality 457
27 Veils and Sales:Muslims and the Spaces of Postcolonial Fashion Retail 459Reina Lewis
28 “Patriarchal Colonialism” and Indigenism: Implications for Native Feminist Spirituality and Native Womanism 473M. A. Jaimes Guerrero
29 Sex, Violence and History in the Lives of Idi Amin: Postcolonial Masculinity as Masquerade 483Mark Leopold
30 Empire, Desire and Violence: A Queer Transnational Feminist Reading of The Prisoner ‘Abuse’ in Abu Ghraib and the Question of ‘Gender Equality’ 495Melanie Richter-Montpetit
Part 7 Science, Environment, Development 513
31 Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor 515Rob Nixon
32 Postcolonial and Feminist Philosophies of Science and Technology: Convergences and Dissonances 533Sandra Harding
33 The Myth of Isolates: Ecosystem Ecologies in the Nuclear Pacific 553Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey
34 Bio-Prospecting or Bio-Piracy: Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity in a Colonial and Postcolonial Context 570John Merson
Part 8 Globalization, Digital Cultures, Identity 585
35 Global Primordialities: Virtual Identity Politics in Online Hindutva and Online Dalit Discourse 587Rohit Chopra
36 Hidden Sides of the Credit Economy: Emotions, Outsourcing, and Indian Call Centers 602Winifred R. Poster
37 eEmpires 627Rita Raley
38 The Woman on the Other Side of the Wall: Archiving the Otherwise in Postcolonial Digital Archives 652Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Index 000