The Post-Colonial Studies Reader

by Ashcroft; Bill

• ISBN13: 9780415345651
• ISBN10: 0415345650
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-01-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Postcolonial StudiesReaderis the essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism. Updating and expanding the coverage of the highly successful first edition, this second edition now offers 121 extracts from key works in the field, arranged in clearly introduced sections on: Issues and Debates Universality and Difference Representation and Resistance Nationalism Hybridity Indigeneity Ethnicity Race Feminism Language The Body and Performance History Place Education Production and Consumption Diaspora Globalization Environment The Sacred Leading figures in the areas of post-colonial writing, theory and criticism are represented, as are critics who are as yet less well-known. As in the first edition, theReaderranges as widely as possible in orderto reflect the remarkable diversity of work in the discipline and the vibrancy of anti-imperialist writing both within and without the metropolitan centres. Covering more debates, topics and critics than any comparable book in its field,The Postcolonial Studies Readerprovides the ideal starting point for students and issues a potent challenge to the ways in which we think and write about literature and culture.

Table of Contents

General introduction	p. 1
Introduction to the second edition	p. 5
Issues and debates
Introduction to part one	p. 9
The occasion for speaking	p. 14
The economy of Manichean allegory	p. 19
Orientalism	p. 24
Can the subaltern speak?	p. 28
Signs taken for wonders	p. 38
Problems in current theories of colonial discourse	p. 44
The scramble for post-colonialism	p. 51
Colonialism and culture	p. 57
The nature of things : arrested decolonization and critical theory	p. 62
The intimacy of tyranny	p. 66
Universality and difference
Introduction to part two	p. 71
Colonialist criticism	p. 73
Heroic ethnocentrism : the idea of universality in literature	p. 77
Western mathematics : the secret weapon of cultural imperialism	p. 80
Jameson's rhetoric of otherness and the 'national allergory'	p. 84
The critique of Eurocentrism	p. 89
Representation and resistance
Introduction to part three	p. 93
Resistance, opposition and representation	p. 95
Post-colonial literatures and counter-discourse	p. 99
Unsettling the empire : resistance theory for the second world	p. 102
The rhetoric of English India	p. 107
Colonialism, racism and representation	p. 109
Networks of resistance	p. 113
Nationalism
Introduction to part four	p. 117
National culture	p. 119
Imagined communities	p. 123
Nationalism as a problem	p. 126
The national longing for form	p. 128
Dissemination : time, narrative, and the margins of the modern nation	p. 132
What ish my nation?	p. 134
Hybridity
Introduction to part five	p. 137
Fossil and psyche	p. 139
Named for Victoria, Queen of England	p. 143
Of the marvellous realism of the Haitians	p. 146
Marvellous realism : the way out of negritude	p. 150
Creolization in Jamaica	p. 152
Cultural diversity and cultural differences	p. 155
The cultural politics of hybridity	p. 158
Indigenity
Introduction to part six	p. 163
The myth of authenticity	p. 165
Who can write as other?	p. 169
The representation of the indigene	p. 172
Postcolonialism, ideology, and native American literature	p. 176
Indigenous articulations	p. 180
The white inuit speaks : contamination as literary strategy	p. 184
Ethnicity
Introduction to part seven	p. 189
Who is ethnic?	p. 191
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