Postcolonial Studies And Beyond

by Loomba, Ania; Kaul, Suvir; Bunzl, Matti; Burton, Antoinette; Esty, Jed

• ISBN13: 9780822335238
• ISBN10: 0822335239
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to map out a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this volume assesses the current state of the field and points toward its most promising new developments. In addressing questions about the definition and relevance of postcolonial scholarship, many of the essays consider its relation to the study of globalization. While some contributors offer broad reflections on the existing two-way influence between postcolonial theory and established university disciplines such as literary criticism and history, others forge ahead into some vital, if nascent, areas for postcolonial research such as media studies, environmental studies, religious studies, and linguistic and semantic analysis.The contributors represent many of the fields altered by postcolonial studies over the past two decades, including literary studies, history, anthropology, Asian and African studies, and political science. They model diverse applications of postcolonial theory to Latin America, East Asia, the Middle East, and the United States.Postcolonial Studies and Beyondpropels the field forward. It showcases scholars coming from intellectual precincts usually considered outside the purview of the postcolonial finding new ways to deploy classic techniques of postcolonial analysis, and scholars strongly associated with postcolonial studies offering substantial critiques designed to challenge the fieldrs"s most fundamental assumptions.Contributors.Tani E. Barlow, Ali Behdad, Daniel Boyarin, Timothy Brennan, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, Laura Chrisman, Jean Comaroff, Frederick Cooper, Vilashini Cooppan, Jed Esty, James Ferguson, Peter Hulme, Suvir Kaul, Neil Lazarus, Ania Loomba, Florencia E. Mallon, Nivedita Menon, Rob Nixon, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, David Scott, Ella Shohat, Kelwyn Sole, Robert Stam, Rebecca L. Stein

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Beyond What? An Introduction	1	(40)
Ania Loomba
Suvir Kaul
Matti Bunzl
Antoinette Burton
Jed Esty
PART 1 Globalization and the Postcolonial Eclipse
Beyond the Straits: Postcolonial Allegories of the Globe	41	(21)
Peter Hulme
On Globalization, Again!	62	(18)
Ali Behdad
The Ruins of Empire: The National and Global Politics of America's Return to Rome	80	(21)
Vilashini Cooppan
The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery	101	(24)
Timothy Brennan
PART 2 Neoliberalism and the Postcolonial World
The End of History, Again? Pursuing the Past in the Postcolony	125	(20)
Jean Comaroff
A Flight from Freedom	145	(21)
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development	166	(16)
James Ferguson
``The Deep Thoughts the One in Need Falls Into'': Quotidian Experience and the Perspectives of Poetry in Postliberation South Africa	182	(24)
Kelwyn Sole
Between the Burqa and the Beauty Parlor? Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, and Feminist Politics	206	(27)
Nivedita Menon
PART 3 Beyond the Nation-State (and Back Again)
Environmentalism and Postcolonialism	233	(19)
Rob Nixon
Beyond Black Atlantic and Postcolonial Studies: The South African Differences of Sol Plaatje and Peter Abrahams	252	(20)
Laura Chrisman
Pathways to Postcolonial Nationhood: The Democratization of Difference in Contemporary Latin America	272	(21)
Florencia E. Mallon
Traveling Multiculturalism: A Trinational Debate in Translation	293	(24)
Robert Stam
Ella Shohat
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the Post/colonial Question	317	(22)
Rebecca L. Stein
PART 4 Postcolonial Studies and the Disciplines in Transformation
Hybridity and Heresy: Apartheid Comparative Religion in Late Antiquity	339	(20)
Daniel Boyarin
Eugenic Woman, Semicolonialism, and Colonial Modernity as Problems for Postcolonial Theory	359	(26)
Tani E. Barlow
The Social Construction of Postcolonial Studies	385	(16)
David Scott
Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History	401	(22)
Frederick Cooper
The Politics of Postcolonial Modernism	423	(16)
Neil Lazarus
Bibliography	439	(40)
Contributors	479	(4)
Index	483