Postcolonialism : An Historical Introduction

by Young, Robert J. C.

• ISBN13: 9780631200710
• ISBN10: 0631200711
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This key new introduction, by one of the leading exponents in the field, explains in clear and accessible language the historical and theoretical origins of post-colonial theory. Acknowledging that post-colonial theory draws on a wide, often contested, range of theory from different fields, Young analyzes the concepts and issues involved, explains the meaning of key terms, and interprets the work of some of the major writers concerned, to provide an ideal introductory guide for those undergraduates or academics coming to post-colonial theory and criticism for the first time.

Author Biography

Robert J. C. Young is Professor of English and Critical Theory at Oxford University and a fellow of Wadham College. He is the author of White Mythologies: Writing History and the West (1990), Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture, and Race (1995), and Torn Halves: Political Conflict in Literary and Cultural Theory (1996). Robert Young is also the General Editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Colonialism and the Politics of Postcolonial Critique	1	(12)
Part I Concepts in History	13	(58)
Colonialism	15	(10)
Imperialism	25	(19)
Neocolonialism	44	(13)
Postcolonialism	57	(14)
Part II European Anti-colonialism	71	(42)
Las Casas to Bentham	73	(15)
Nineteenth-century Liberalism	88	(13)
Marx on Colonialism and Imperialism	101	(12)
Part III The Internationals	113	(46)
Socialism and Nationalism: The First International to the Russian Revolution	115	(12)
The Third International, to the Baku Congress of the Peoples of the East	127	(13)
The Women's International, the Third and the Fourth Internationals	140	(19)
Part IV Theoretical Practices of the Freedom Struggles	159	(176)
The National Liberation Movements: Introduction	161	(6)
Marxism and the National Liberation Movements	167	(15)
China, Egypt, Bandung	182	(11)
Latin America I: Mariategui, Transculturation and Cultural Dependency	193	(11)
Latin America II: Cuba: Guevara, Castro and the Tricontinental	204	(13)
Africa I: Anglophone African Socialism	217	(19)
Africa II: Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism	236	(17)
Africa III: The Senghors and Francophone African Socialism	253	(21)
Africa IV: Fanon/Cabral	274	(19)
The Subject of Violence: Algeria, Ireland	293	(15)
India I: Marxism in India	308	(9)
India II: Gandhi's Counter-modernity	317	(18)
Part V Formations of Postcolonial Theory	335	(92)
India III: Hybridity and Subaltern Agency	337	(23)
Women, Gender and Anti-colonialism	360	(23)
Edward Said and Colonial Discourse	383	(12)
Foucault in Tunisia	395	(16)
Subjectivity and History: Derrida in Algeria	411	(16)
Epilogue: Tricontinentalism, for a Transnational Social Justice	427	(2)
Bibliography	429	(44)
Index	473