After Colonialism

by Prakash, Gyan

• ISBN13: 9780691037424
• ISBN10: 0691037426
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-11-29
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

After Colonialismoffers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America to Europe--the essays in this volume reexamine colonialism and its aftermath. Leading literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists engage with recent theories and perspectives in their specific studies, showing the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world and offering postcolonial reflections on the effects and experience of empire. The contributions cross historical analysis of texts with textual examination of historical records and situate metropolitan cultural practices in engagements with non-metropolitan locations. Interdisciplinarity here means exploring and realigning disciplinary boundaries. Contributors toAfter Colonialisminclude Edward Said, Steven Feierman, Joan Dayan, Ruth Phillips, Anthony Pagden, Leonard Blusseacute;, Gauri Viswanathan, Zachary Lockman, Jorge Klor de Alva, Irene Silverblatt, Emily Apter, and Homi Bhabha.

Author Biography

Gyan Prakash is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction: After Colonialism	p. 3
Colonialism and the Disciplines
Secular Interpretation, the Geographical Element, and the Methodology of Imperialism	p. 21
Africa in History: The End of Universal Narratives	p. 40
Haiti, History, and the Gods	p. 66
Why Not Tourist Art? Significant Silences in Native American Museum Representations	p. 98
Colonialism and Cultural Difference
The Effacement of Difference: Colonialism and the Origins of Nationalism in Diderot and Herder	p. 129
Retribution and Remorse: The Interaction between the Administration and the Protestant Mission in Early Colonial Formosa	p. 153
Coping with (Civil) Death: The Christian Convert's Rights of Passage in Colonial India	p. 183
Exclusion and Solidarity: Labor Zionism and Arab Workers in Palestine, 1897-1929	p. 211
The Postcolonization of the (Latin) American Experience: A Reconsideration of "Colonialism," "Postcolonialism," and "Mestizaje"	p. 241
Colonial Discourse and Its Displacements
Becoming Indian in the Central Andes of Seventeenth-Century Peru	p. 279
Ethnographic Travesties: Colonial Realism, French Feminism, and the Case of Elissa Rhais	p. 299
In a Spirit of Calm Violence	p. 326
Notes on the Contibutors	p. 345
Index	p. 347
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