Postcolonial Discourses An Anthology

by Castle, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9780631210054
• ISBN10: 0631210059
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Emphasising the increasingly regional or national approach to the legacies of colonialism, this Reader provides an entirely new way for students to engage with an important and complex area of discourse.

Author Biography

Gregory Castle teaches English and Irish literature at Arizona State University. He is the author of Modernism and the Celtic Revival (Cambridge University Press, 2001) as well as numerous essays in Irish studies and postcolonialism.

Table of Contents

Thematic Contents	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Editor's Introduction: Resistance and Complicity in Postcolonial Studies	xi
Selected Bibliography	xxiv
Postcolonial Discourses: Complicity and Critique
``Spontaneity: Its Strength and Weakness''	3	(23)
Frantz Fanon
``Discrepant Experiences''	26	(12)
Edward W. Said
``Unsatisfied: Notes on Vernacular Cosmopolitanism''	38	(15)
Homi K. Bhabha
``The Burden of English''	53	(20)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
``Colonialism and the Desiring Machine''	73	(26)
Robert J. C. Young
``Post-colonial Critical Theories''	99	(20)
Stephen Slemon
Indian Nations: Conundrums of Difference
``The Prose of Counter-Insurgency''	119	(32)
Ranjit Guha
``The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question''	151	(16)
Partha Chatterjee
``Representing Sati: Continuities and Discontinuities''	167	(23)
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
``Nationalism, Gender, and the Narrative of Identity''	190	(19)
R. Radhakrishnan
African Identities: Resistance and Race
``An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness''	209	(12)
Chinua Achebe
``African Identities''	221	(11)
Kwame Anthony Appiah
```Unsystematic Fingers at the Conditions of the Times': `Afropop' and the Paradoxes of Imperialism''	232	(19)
Neil Lazarus
``Sheroes and Villains: Conceptualizing Colonial and Contemporary Violence Against Women in Africa''	251	(20)
Amina Mama
Caribbean Encounters: Revolution, Hybridity, Diaspora
``Colonialism and the Caribbean Novel''	271	(9)
George Lamming
``Negotiating Caribbean Identities''	280	(13)
Stuart Hall
``Survival and Invention: Indigeneity in the Caribbean''	293	(16)
Peter Hulme
``Sending the Younger Son Across the Wide Sargasso Sea: The New Colonizer Arrives''	309	(22)
Moira Ferguson
Rump Commonwealth: Settler Colonies and the ``Second World''
``Crimes and Punishments''	331	(26)
Bob Hodge
Vijay Mishra
``Colonizing Gender in Colonial Australia: The Eliza Fraser Story''	357	(17)
Kay Schaffer
``The Body in the Library: Identity, Opposition and the Settler-Invader Woman''	374	(15)
Helen Tiffin
``Out of the Center: Thoughts on the Post-colonial Literatures of Australia and New Zealand''	389	(12)
Ralph J. Crane
The Case of Ireland: Inventing Nations
``Adulteration and the Nation''	401	(31)
David Lloyd
``Reading a Woman's Death: Colonial Text and Oral Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland''	432	(26)
Angela Bourke
``Inventing Ireland''	458	(26)
Declan Kiberd
``Race Against Time: Racial Discourse and Irish History''	484	(18)
Luke Gibbons
Glossary	502	(9)
Index	511