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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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