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9780470998335

A Companion to Postcolonial Studies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470998335

  • ISBN10:

    0470998334

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947. Ranges widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study Presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia Provides clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European colonization Features introductory essays on the major thinkers and intellectual schools that have informed strategies of national liberation worldwide Offers an incisive summary of the long history and theory of modern European colonization in local detail and global scale.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Foreword: Upon Reading the Companion to Postcolonial Studies
Acknowledgments
Mission Impossible: Introducing Postcolonial Studies in the US Academy
Historical And Theoretical Issues.
Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism
Postcolonial Feminism/Postcolonialism and Feminism
Heterogeneity and Hybridity: Colonial Legacy, Postcolonial Heresy
Postcolonialism and Postmodernism
Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism
Global Capital and Transnationalism
The Local And The Global.
A Vindication of Double Consciousness
Human Understanding and (Latin) American Interests û The Politics and Sensibilities of Geohistorical Locations
US Imperialism: Global Dominance without Colonies
Indigenousness and Indigeneity
Creolization, Orality, and Nation Language in the Caribbean
Middle-class Consciousness and Patriotic Literature in South Asia
Africa: Varied Colonial Legacies
The "Middle East"? Or à / Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial Predicament
King Kong in Hong kong: Watching the "Handover" from the USA
Japan and East Asia
Intellectuals, Theosophy, and Failed Narratives of the Nation in Late Colonial Java
Settler Colonies
Ireland After History
Global Disjunctures, Diasporic Differences, and the New World (Dis-)Order
Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender
The Inventiveness Of Theory.
Humanism in Question: Fanon and Said
Spivak and Bhaba
A Small History of Subaltern Studies
Feminist Theory in Perspective
Global Gay Formations and Local Homosexualities
Cultural Studies And Postcolonialism.
Rethinking English: Postcolonial English Studies
Postcolonial Legality
Race, Gender, Class, Postcolonialism: Toward a New Humanistic Paradigm?
Postscript: Popular Perceptions of Postcolonial Studies After 9/11
Index
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