Postcolonial Studies - An Anthology

This new anthology brings together the most diverse and recent voices in postcolonial theory to emerge since 9/11, alongside classic texts in established areas of postcolonial studies.
* 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

Sommario

Preface x
 
Acknowledgments xi
 
Introduction 1
 
Part 1 Framing the Postcolonial 13
 
1 The Fact of Blackness 15
Frantz Fanon
 
2 Introduction to Orientalism 33
Edward Said
 
3 Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse 53
Homi K. Bhabha
 
4 Scattered Speculations on the Subaltern and the Popular 60
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
 
5 Third?]World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism 71
Fredric Jameson
 
6 Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the "National Allegory" 91
Aijaz Ahmad
 
7 Re-Orientalism: The Perpetration and Development of Orientalism by Orientals 110
Lisa Lau
 
8 Postcolonial Remains 125
Robert JC Young
 
9 Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change 144
Dipesh Chakrabarty
 
Part 2 The Question of History and Historical Subjects 159
 
10 Historylessness: Australia as a Settler Colonial Collective 161
Lorenzo Veracini
 
11 Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization 175
Fernando Coronil
 
12 History Without a Cause? Grand Narratives, World History, and the Postcolonial Dilemma 193
Barbara Weinstein
 
13 "Africa As an Alien Future": The Middle Passage, Afrofuturism, and Postcolonial Waterworlds 211
Ruth Mayer
 
Part 3 Language, Literacy, Education 223
 
14 On English from India: Prepositions to Post-Positions 225
K. Narayana Chandran
 
15 Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want from Writing? 239
Scott Richard Lyons
 
16 Histories of Publishing under Apartheid: Oxford University Press in South Africa 258
Caroline Davis
 
17 Re-ethicizing the Classroom: Pedagogy, the Public Sphere, and the Postcolonial Condition 281
Ajay Heble
 
Part 4 Nation, Space, Identity 295
 
18 Whiteness in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe: The Time of The Gypsies, The End of Race 297
Anikó Imre
 
19 Asian Canadian Futures: Diasporic Passages and the Routes of Indenture 316
Lily Cho
 
20 Ireland, Empire and Utopia: Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse 331
Eóin Flannery
 
21 Narrative Agency and Thinking about Conflicts 354
Nandana Dutta
 
22 The Ballad of the Sad Café: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the Post/colonial Question 370
Rebecca L. Stein
 
Part 5 Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism 385
 
23 Cosmopolitanism and the De-colonial Option 387
Walter D. Mignolo
 
24 Solidarity and Spheres of Culture: The Cosmopolitan and the Postcolonial 405
Vivienne Jabri
 
25 Literature/Identity: Transnationalism, Narrative and Representation 418
Arif Dirlik
 
26 The Limits of Cultural Hybridity: On Ritual Monsters, Poetic Licence and Contested Postcolonial Purifications 438
Pnina Werbner
 
Part 6 Gender and Sexuality 457
 
27 Veils and Sales:Muslims and the Spaces of Postcolonial Fashion Retail 459
Reina Lewis
 
28 "Patriarchal Colonialism" and Indigenism: Implications for Native Feminist Spirituality and Native Womanism 473
M. A. Jaimes Guerrero
 
29 Sex, Violence and History in the Lives of Idi Amin: Postcolonial Masculinity as Masquerade 483
Mark Leopold
 
30 Empire, Desire and Violence: A Queer Transnational Feminist Reading of The Prisoner 'Abuse' in Abu Ghraib and the Question of 'Gender Equality' 495
Melanie Richter?]Montpetit
 
Part 7 Science, Environment, Development 513
 
31 Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor 515
Rob Nixon
 
32 Postcolonial and Feminist Philosophies of Science and Technology: Convergences and Dissonances 533
Sandra Harding
 
33 The Myth of Isolates: Ecosystem Ecologi

Info autore

Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, The University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary (Wiley-Blackwell 2015), the 5-volume edited collection Women in Colonial India: Historical Documents and Sources (2014), Frantz Fanon (2013), Posthumanism (Polity 2013), Colonial Voices: The Discourses of Empire (Wiley-Blackwell 2012), Writing Wrongs: The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India (2012), The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell 2010), and An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures (Wiley-Blackwell 2010).

Riassunto

This new anthology brings together the most diverse and recent voices in postcolonial theory to emerge since 9/11, alongside classic texts in established areas of postcolonial studies.
* 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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Pk Nayar, Pramod K. Nayar, Pramod K. (University of Hyderabad Nayar, Pramod K. Nayar
• Con la collaborazione di: Pramo K Nayar (Editore), Pramod K Nayar (Editore), Pramod K Nayar (Editore), Pramod K. Nayar (Editore), Pramod K. (University of Hyderabad Nayar (Editore), Nayar Pramod K. (Editore)
• Editore: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 25.09.2015
• EAN: 9781118780992
• ISBN: 978-1-118-78099-2
• Pagine: 688
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Literaturwissenschaft, Postkolonialismus, Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Theorie der Postkolonialzeit