A Companion to Postcolonial Studies

by Schwarz, Henry; Ray, Sangeeta

• ISBN13: 9780631206637
• ISBN10: 0631206639
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-20
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947. Ranges widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study Presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia Provides clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European colonization Features introductory essays on the major thinkers and intellectual schools that have informed strategies of national liberation worldwide Offers an incisive summary of the long history and theory of modern European colonization in local detail and global scale.

Author Biography

Henry Schwarz is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University, He is author of Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India (1997) and co-editor of Reading the Shape of the World: Toward an International Cultural Studies (1996) and Contributions to Bengal Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Approach (1998). He has published in literary theory, cultural studies, Indian literature, and English imperialism. He is currently US Regional Editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

Sangeeta Ray is currently the Director of the Asian American Studies program at the University of Maryland as well as Associate Professor in the English Department. She has published extensively on feminist postcolonial issues. She is author of En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives (1999).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Foreword: Upon Reading the Companion to Postcolonial Studies	xv
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Acknowledgments	xxiii
Mission Impossible: Introducing Postcolonial Studies in the US Academy	1	(20)
Henry Schwarz
Part I: Historical and Theoretical Issues	21	(142)
1 Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism	23	(30)
Neil Larsen
2 Postcolonial Feminism/Postcolonialism and Feminism	53	(19)
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and You-me Park
3 Heterogeneity and Hybridity: Colonial Legacy, Postcolonial Heresy	72	(15)
David Theo Goldberg
4 Postcolonialism and Postmodernism	87	(25)
Ato Quayson
5 Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism	112	(14)
Jenny Sharpe
6 Global Capital and Transnationalism	126	(39)
Crystal Bartolovich
Part II: The Local and the Global	163	(266)
7 A Vindication of Double Consciousness	165	(15)
Doris Sommer
8 Human Understanding and (Latin) American Interests - The Politics and Sensibilities of Geohistorical Locations	180	(23)
Walter D. Mignolo
9 US Imperialism: Global Dominance without Colonies	203	(18)
Donald E. Pease
10 Indigenousness and Indigeneity	221	(15)
Jace Weaver
11 Creolization, Oralit, and Nation Language in the Caribbean	236	(16)
Supriya Nair
12 "Middle-class" Consciousness and Patriotic Literature in South Asia	252	(17)
Sumit Sarkar
13 Africa: Varied Colonial Legacies	269	(13)
Tejumola Olaniyan
14 The "Middle East"? Or.../Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial Predicament	282	(22)
Magda M. Al-Nowaihi
15 King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the "Handover" from the USA	304	(15)
Rey Chow
16 Japan and East Asia	319	(14)
Sandra Buckley
17 Intellectuals, Theosophy, and Failed Narratives of the Nation in Late Colonial Java	333	(27)
Laurie J. Sears
18 Settler Colonies	360	(17)
Anna Johnston and Alan Lawson
19 Ireland After History	377	(19)
David Lloyd
20 Global Disjunctures, Diasporic Differences, and the NoN World (Dis-)Order	396	(14)
Ali Behdad
21 Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender	410	(19)
Geeta Patel
Part III: The Inventiveness of Theory	429	(92)
22 Humanism in Question: Fanon and Said	431	(20)
Anthony C. Allessandrini
23 Spivak and Bhabha	451	(16)
Bart Moore Gilbert
24 A Small History of Subaltern Studies	467	(19)
Dipesh Chakrabarty
25 Feminist Theory in Perspective	486	(22)
Ipshita Chanda
26 Global Gay Formations amd Local Homosexualities	508	(13)
Katie King
Part IV: Cultural Studies and the Accommodation of Postcolonialism	521	(53)
27 Rethinking English: Postcolonial English Studies	523	(17)
Gaurav Desai
28 Postcolonial Legality	540	(16)
Upendra Baxi
29 Race, Gender, Class, Postcolonialism: Toward a New Humanistic Paradigm?	556	(18)
Bruce Robbins
Postscript: Popular Perceptions of Postcolonial Studies after 9/11	574	(10)
Sangeeta Ray
Index	584