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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 H...
