Postcolonial Studies (eBook, ePUB)

An Anthology
Redaktion: Nayar, Pramod K.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This new anthology brings together the most diverse and recent voices in postcolonial theory to emerge since 9/11, alongside classic texts in established areas of postcolonial studies. * Brings fresh insight and renewed political energy to established domains such as nation, history, literature, and gender * Engages with contemporary concerns such as globalization, digital cultures, neo-colonialism, and language debates * Includes wide geographical coverage - from Ireland and India to Israel and Palestine * Provides uniquely broad coverage, offering a full sense of the tradition, including significant essays on science, technology and development, education and literacy, digital cultures, and transnationalism * Edited by a distinguished postcolonial scholar, this insightful volume serves scholars and students across multiple disciplines from literary and cultural studies, to anthropology and digital studies

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118780985
• Artikelnr.: 43419595

Autorenporträt

Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, The University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary (Wiley-Blackwell 2015), the 5-volume edited collection Women in Colonial India: Historical Documents and Sources (2014), Frantz Fanon (2013), Posthumanism (Polity 2013), Colonial Voices: The Discourses of Empire (Wiley-Blackwell 2012), Writing Wrongs: The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India (2012), The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell 2010), and An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures (Wiley-Blackwell 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface x

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Part 1 Framing the Postcolonial 13

1 The Fact of Blackness 15
Frantz Fanon

2 Introduction to Orientalism 33
Edward Said

3 Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse 53
Homi K. Bhabha

4 Scattered Speculations on the Subaltern and the Popular 60
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

5 Third?]World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism 71
Fredric Jameson

6 Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the "National Allegory" 91
Aijaz Ahmad

7 Re-Orientalism: The Perpetration and Development of Orientalism by Orientals 110
Lisa Lau

8 Postcolonial Remains 125
Robert JC Young

9 Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change 144
Dipesh Chakrabarty

Part 2 The Question of History and Historical Subjects 159

10 Historylessness: Australia as a Settler Colonial Collective 161
Lorenzo Veracini

11 Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization 175
Fernando Coronil

12 History Without a Cause? Grand Narratives, World History, and the Postcolonial Dilemma 193
Barbara Weinstein

13 "Africa As an Alien Future": The Middle Passage, Afrofuturism, and Postcolonial Waterworlds 211
Ruth Mayer

Part 3 Language, Literacy, Education 223

14 On English from India: Prepositions to Post-Positions 225
K. Narayana Chandran

15 Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want from Writing? 239
Scott Richard Lyons

16 Histories of Publishing under Apartheid: Oxford University Press in South Africa 258
Caroline Davis

17 Re-ethicizing the Classroom: Pedagogy, the Public Sphere, and the Postcolonial Condition 281
Ajay Heble

Part 4 Nation, Space, Identity 295

18 Whiteness in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe: The Time of The Gypsies, The End of Race 297
Anikó Imre

19 Asian Canadian Futures: Diasporic Passages and the Routes of Indenture 316
Lily Cho

20 Ireland, Empire and Utopia: Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse 331
Eóin Flannery

21 Narrative Agency and Thinking about Conflicts 354
Nandana Dutta

22 The Ballad of the Sad Café: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the Post/colonial Question 370
Rebecca L. Stein

Part 5 Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism 385

23 Cosmopolitanism and the De-colonial Option 387
Walter D. Mignolo

24 Solidarity and Spheres of Culture: The Cosmopolitan and the Postcolonial 405
Vivienne Jabri

25 Literature/Identity: Transnationalism, Narrative and Representation 418
Arif Dirlik

26 The Limits of Cultural Hybridity: On Ritual Monsters, Poetic Licence and Contested Postcolonial Purifications 438
Pnina Werbner

Part 6 Gender and Sexuality 457

27 Veils and Sales:Muslims and the Spaces of Postcolonial Fashion Retail 459
Reina Lewis

28 "Patriarchal Colonialism" and Indigenism: Implications for Native Feminist Spirituality and Native Womanism 473
M. A. Jaimes Guerrero

29 Sex, Violence and History in the Lives of Idi Amin: Postcolonial Masculinity as Masquerade 483
Mark Leopold

30 Empire, Desire and Violence: A Queer Transnational Feminist Reading of The Prisoner 'Abuse' in Abu Ghraib and the Question of 'Gender Equality' 495
Melanie Richter?]Montpetit

Part 7 Science, Environment, Development 513

31 Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor 515
Rob Nixon

32 Postcolonial and Feminist Philosophies of Science and Technology: Convergences and Dissonances 533
Sandra Harding

33 The Myth of Isolates: Ecosystem Ecologi