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Informationen zum Autor Pramod K. Nayar teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India. His books in postcolonial studies include Frantz Fanon (2014), Colonial Voices: The Discourses of Empire (Wiley, 2012) Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2010), and Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction (2008) . He is also the editor of the 5-volume Women in Colonial India: Historical Documents and Sources (2013). Forthcoming works include Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology (Wiley) and a book on Human Rights and Literature. Klappentext The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary provides students with an essential resource for navigating the field of postcolonial theory. Each of the more than 150 entries includes the origins, where traceable, of a key term or concept; a detailed explanation of its perceived meaning and theoretical usage; and examples of literary and cultural texts where the term appears. Written by a respected scholar of postcolonialism, the Dictionary features a short introduction to postcolonial theory and a detailed list of suggested further reading, including the texts in which many of these terms originated. Written in clear, jargon-free prose, The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary helps students and scholars decode colonial and postcolonial texts. Zusammenfassung This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Lits of terms vi Acknowledgements ix Preface x Dictionary 1 References 170 Terms aboriginal 1 abrogation 2 Adivasi 3 Afro-Europe 4 agency 5 alterity 6 ambivalence 8 anthropology (colonial) 9 apartheid 11 appropriation 12 archive (colonial) 13 arithmetic (colonial) 14 assimilado 15 barbarian/barbaric 16 Black Atlantic 17 black consciousness 19 cannibal 21 captivity narratives 22 Carib 23 cartography 23 catachresis 25 citizenship (cultural) 26 citizenship (ecological) 27 census 27 centre and margin 28 chutneyfication 29 colony/colonialism 30 colonial discourse 32 Commonwealth Literature 34 comprador colonialism 35 conquistador 36 contrapuntal reading 36 cosmopolitanism 37 cosmopolitanism (vernacular) 38 Creole/creolization 39 cultural imperialism 41 Dalit 43 Dark Continent 44 decolonization 45 dependency complex 47 diaspora 48 discovery 51 dislocation/displacement 52 double consciousness 52 e-Empire 55 ecological ethnicity 55 ecological imperialism 57 education (colonial) 57 effeminacy 59 Empire - new figurations of 60 Enlightenment (European) 61 environmentalism 62 epidermalization 64 epistemic violence 65 eroticization 66 essentialism 67 ethnicity 69 ethnocide 70 ethnography (colonial) 70 ethnopsychiatry (colonial) 71 Eurocentrism 73 evangelicalism (colonial) 74 exile 75 exoticism 76 exploitation colony 77 exploration (colonial) 77 feminism (Islamic) 79 fetish/phobia 80 filiation/affiliation 80 First World 81 Fourth World 81 geographical morality 83 geography 83 globe 85 globalization 85 hegemony 87 homonationalism 88 humanism (European) 88 humanitarianism 90 hybridity 91 imaginative geography 93 imperialism 94 indentured labour 95 infantilization 95 kala pani ('Black Water') 97<...
