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Zusatztext the book is bound to inspire postcolonial scholars to address in creative ways some of the important questions that face us now. Informationen zum Autor Graham Huggan is Chair of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures in the School of English at the University of Leeds, where he also directs the cross-disciplinary Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the general field of comparative postcolonial studies, a field he has been working in for over twenty years. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies is a major reference work, which aims to provide informed insights into the possible future of postcolonial studies as well as a comparative overview of the latest developments in the field. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised into five cross-referenced sections, 'The Imperial Past', 'The Colonial Present', 'Theory and Practice', 'Across the Disciplines', and 'Across the World'. The chapters offer both country-specific and comparative approaches to current issues, offering a wide range of new and interesting perspectives. The Handbook reflects the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of postcolonial studies and reiterates its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past--in its multiple manifestations-- and the contemporary globalized world. Taken together, these essays, the dialogues they pursue, and the editorial comments that surround them constitute nothing less than a blueprint for the future of a much-contested but intellectually vibrant and politically engaged field. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Introduction Section One: The Imperial Past Introduction Reason Aside: Reflections on Enlightenment and Empire Empires of Democracy The Imperial Past: Spain and Portugal in the New World Imperial/Colonial Metamorphosis: A Decolonial Narrative, from the Ottoman Sultanate and Spanish Empire to the US and the EU Empire, Islam and the Postcolonial Hegel, Empire and Anti-Colonial Thought Section One Response: Imperial Histories, Postcolonial Theories Section Two: The Colonial Present Introduction Violence, Law and Justice in the Colonial Present Renegade Prophets and Native Acolytes: Liberalism and Imperialism Today The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Challenge of Postcolonial Agency: International Relations, US Policy and the Arab World Africa s Colonial Present: Development, Violence and Postcolonial Security Beyond Biopolitics: Agamben, Asylum and Postcolonial Critique Indigenous Inhabitations and the Colonial Present Section Two Response: Towards an Anti-Colonial Future Section Three: Theory and Practice Introduction Revisiting Resistance: Postcolonial Practice and the Antecedents of Theory Third Worldism and the Political Imaginary of Postcolonial Studies Postcolonialism and/as Translation Remembering Back: Cultural Memory, Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial Studies Postcolonialism and Popular Cultures Race, Racism and Postcoloniality Section Three Response: Theory and Practice in Postcolonial Studies Section Four: Across the Disciplines Introduction Modes and Models of Postcolonial Cross-Disciplinarity Postcolonialism and Literature Postcolonialism and History Slippery, Like a Fish : The Discourse of the Social Sciences At the Limits of the Secular: History and Critique in Postcolonial Religious Studies Postcolonialism and the Environment Section Four Response: Origins, outcomes and the meaning of postcolonial diversity Section Five: Across the World Introduction Perspectives on Glo...
