Relocating Postcolonialism

by Goldberg, David Theo; Quayson, Ato

• ISBN13: 9780631208051
• ISBN10: 0631208054
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Relocating Postcolonialism is a major new collection that challenges many of the assumptions and discursive maneuvers of postcolonialism and assesses its relationship to other academic disciplines and fields of inquiry.

Author Biography

David Theo Goldberg is Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine and Director of the system-wide University of California Humanities Research Institute. His books include The Racial State (2002), Race Critical Theories: Text and Context (2002, co-edited with Philomena Essed), and Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (1993).

Ato Quayson is Lecturer in the English Faculty, Director of the African Studies Centre, and Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing (1997), Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process (2000), and Calibrations: Reading for the Social (2002).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	x
Introduction: Scale and Sensibility	xi
Ato Quayson
David Theo Goldberg
In Conversation with Neeladri Bhattacharya, Suvir Kaul, and Ania Loomba	1	(14)
Edward Said
Speaking of Postcoloniality, in the Continuous Present: A Conversation	15	(32)
Homi Bhabha
John Comaroff
Resident Alien	47	(19)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Directions and Dead Ends in Postcolonial Studies	66	(16)
Benita Parry
Racial Rule	82	(21)
David Theo Goldberg
Racist Visions for the Twenty-First Century: On the Cultural Politics of the French Radical Right	103	(19)
Ann Laura Stoler
Breaking the Silence and a Break with the Past: African Oral Histories and the Transformations of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Southern Ghana	122	(21)
Anne Bailey
Forgotten Like a Bad Dream: Atlantic Slavery and the Ethics of Postcolonial Memory	143	(31)
Barnor Hesse
Connectivity and the Fate of the Unconnected	174	(10)
Olu Oguibe
Towards (Re)Conciliation: The Postcolonial Economy of Giving	184	(21)
Pal Ahluwalia
The Economy of Ideas: Colonial Gift and Postcolonial Product	205	(12)
Zane Ma-Rhea
Looking Awry: Tropes of Disability in Postcolonial Writing	217	(14)
Ato Quayson
Theorizing Disability	231	(39)
Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Nature, History, and the Failure of Language: The Problem of the Human in Post-Apartheid South Africa	270	(12)
John K. Noyes
Passing as Korean American	282	(12)
Wendy Ann Lee
Myths of East and West: Intellectual Property Law in Postcolonial Hong Kong	294	(26)
Eve Darian-Smith
A Flexible Foundation: Constructing a Postcolonial Dialogue	320	(14)
Dawn Duncan
Linguistics and Postcolonial Literature: Englishes in the Classroom	334	(15)
Laura Wright
Jonathan Hope
Post-Scriptum	349	(10)
Francoise Verges
Index	359