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Informationen zum Autor Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, and Jed Esty, eds. Klappentext This interdisciplinary volume attempts to expand the temporal and geographic agenda of postcolonial studies. Zusammenfassung This interdisciplinary volume attempts to expand the temporal and geographic agenda of postcolonial studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Beyond What? An Introduction / Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, and Jed Esty 1 Part 1. Globalization and the Postcolonial Eclipse Beyond the Straits: Postcolonial Allegories of the Globe / Peter Hulme 41 On Globalization, Again! / Ali Behdad 62 The Ruins of Empire: The National and Global Politics of America’s Return to Rome / Vilashini Cooppan 80 The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery / Timothy Brennan 101 Part 2. Neoliberalism and the Postcolonial World The End of History, Again? Pursuing the Past in the Postcolony / Jean Comaroff 125 A Flight from Freedom / Elizabeth A. Povinelli 145 Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development / James Ferguson 166 “The Deep Thoughts the One in Need Falls Into”: Quotidian Experience and the Perspectives of Poetry in Postliberation South Africa / Kelwyn Sole 182 Between the Burqa and the Beauty Parlor? Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, and Feminist Politics / Nivedita Menon 206 Part 3. Beyond the Nation-State (and Back Again) Environmentalism and Postcolonialism / Rob Nixon 233 Beyond Black Atlantic and Postcolonial Studies: The South African Differences of Sol Plaatje and Peter Abrahams / Laura Chrisman 252 Pathways to Postcolonial Nationhood: The Democratization of Difference in Contemporary Latin America / Florencia E. Mallon 272 Traveling Multiculturalism: A Trinational Debate in Translation / Robert Stam and Ella Shohat 293 The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the Post/colonial Question / Rebecca L. Stein 317 Part 4. Postcolonial Studies and the Disciplines in Transformation Hybridity and Heresy: Apartheid Comparative Religion in Late Antiquity / Daniel Boyarin 339 Eugenic Woman, Semicolonialism, and Colonial Modernity as Problems for Postcolonial Theory / Tani E. Barlow 359 The Social Construction of Postcolonial Studies / David Scott 385 Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History / Frederick Cooper 401 The Politics of Postcolonial Modernism / Neil Lazarus Bibliography 439 Contributors 479 Index 483...
