Pramod K. Nayar

The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory.

• Features a brief introduction to postcolonial theory and a list of suggested further reading that includes the texts in which many of these terms originated
• Each entry includes the origins of the term, where traceable; a detailed explanation of its perceived meaning; and examples of the term's use in literary-cultural texts
• Incorporates terms and concepts from multiple disciplines, including anthropology, literary studies, science, economics, globalization studies, politics, and philosophy
• Provides an ideal companion text to the forthcoming Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology, which is also edited by Pramod K. Nayar, a highly-respected authority in the field

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118781029
• Artikelnr.: 42653908

Autorenporträt

Pramod K. Nayar teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India. His books in postcolonial studies include Frantz Fanon (2014), Colonial Voices: The Discourses of Empire (Wiley, 2012) Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2010), and Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction (2008). He is also the editor of the 5-volume Women in Colonial India: Historical Documents and Sources (2013). Forthcoming works include Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology (Wiley) and a book on Human Rights and Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Lits of terms vi
Acknowledgements ix
Preface x
Dictionary 1
References 170
Terms
aboriginal 1
abrogation 2
Adivasi 3
Afro-Europe 4
agency 5
alterity 6
ambivalence 8
anthropology (colonial) 9
apartheid 11
appropriation 12
archive (colonial) 13
arithmetic (colonial) 14
assimilado 15
barbarian/barbaric 16
Black Atlantic 17
black consciousness 19
cannibal 21
captivity narratives 22
Carib 23
cartography 23
catachresis 25
citizenship (cultural) 26
citizenship (ecological) 27
census 27
centre and margin 28
chutneyfication 29
colony/colonialism 30
colonial discourse 32
Commonwealth Literature 34
comprador colonialism 35
conquistador 36
contrapuntal reading 36
cosmopolitanism 37
cosmopolitanism
(vernacular) 38
Creole/creolization 39
cultural imperialism 41
Dalit 43
Dark Continent 44
decolonization 45
dependency complex 47
diaspora 48
discovery 51
dislocation/displacement 52
double consciousness 52
e-Empire 55
ecological ethnicity 55
ecological imperialism 57
education (colonial) 57
effeminacy 59
Empire - new figurations of 60
Enlightenment (European) 61
environmentalism 62
epidermalization 64
epistemic violence 65
eroticization 66
essentialism 67
ethnicity 69
ethnocide 70
ethnography (colonial) 70
ethnopsychiatry (colonial) 71
Eurocentrism 73
evangelicalism (colonial) 74
exile 75
exoticism 76
exploitation colony 77
exploration (colonial) 77
feminism (Islamic) 79
fetish/phobia 80
filiation/affiliation 80
First World 81
Fourth World 81
geographical morality 83
geography 83
globe 85
globalization 85
hegemony 87
homonationalism 88
humanism (European) 88
humanitarianism 90
hybridity 91
imaginative geography 93
imperialism 94
indentured labour 95
infantilization 95
kala pani ('Black Water') 97
lactification 98
liminality 98
lusotropicalism 99
magical realism 100
Manichean allegory 101
masculinity (imperial) 102
mestizo/a 102
mimicry 103
miscegenation 104
multiculturalism 106
national allegory 108
nationalism (as discourse) 109
native 112
Native Informant 112
nativism 113
Negritude 114
neocolonialism 115
New World 116
Occidentalism 117
orality 117
Orientalism 118
Ornamentalism 120
picturesque (as colonialimperial aesthetic) 121
postcolonialism 122
postcoloniality 124
postcolony 125
postnational 126
primitivism 126
provincializing 127
race 129
refugee 130
re-orientalism 131
representation (colonial) 132
Requerimiento 134
reverse colonization 134
secularism/post-secularism 136
settler colonialism 137
situated knowledge 138
slavery 139
stereotyping 140
strategic essentialism 141
subaltern 143
subjectivity (of Europeans, colonial period) 146
subjectivity (of natives, colonial period) 148
sublime (as colonial aesthetic) 149
syncretism 150
terra incognita 152
terra nullius 153
testimonio 154
text/textuality (colonial) 155
Third World 156
torrid zones 157
transculturation 158
transnationalism 160
tricontinentalism 161
tropicality 161
universalism 163
vernacular 165
whiteness/white studies 167
World Literature 168
worlding 169

Rezensionen

"Pramod Nayar's The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary, with its careful explication of concepts and terms associated with various forms of colonial discourses and postcolonial writing, serves the purpose of being both a ready-reference guide and a scholarly exposition of the theoretical frameworks of the "discipline" of postcolonial studies. Lavishly illustrated through citations from literary-cultural texts, the Dictionary maps the tradition of critical thought we know as postcolonialism while bringing it right up to the contemporary era's E-Empires, neocolonialism's anthropocene visuality and new forms of hybridity in the age of the digital. An eminently usable work."--Senath Perera, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka