Postcolonial Studies E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 1858

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

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

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Title page

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Europe’s Transnational Pasts

II. The Postcolony’s Transnational Present

References

Part One: Framing the Postcolonial

1 The Fact of Blackness

2 Introduction to Orientalism

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II

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3 Of Mimicry and Man

4 Scattered Speculations on the Subaltern and the Popular

5 Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism

6 Jameson’s Rhetoric of Otherness and the “National Allegory”

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7 Re-Orientalism

Introducing Re-Orientalism

Analysis of Recent Trends in South Asian Women’s Literature

The Problems of Re-Orientalism

Concluding Thoughts

References

8 Postcolonial Remains

I. The Politics of Invisibility

II. Unreadable Islam

III.

Convivencia

IV. The Other

9 Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change

The Human in Postcolonial Criticism Today

The Human in the Anthropocene

In Conclusion

Part Two: The Question of History and Historical Subjects

10 Historylessness

History and ‘Settler Society’

The Historiography of an Impossible History

Conclusion:

Historia Nullius

11 Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization

Postcolonial Studies

Postcolonial Studies and Latin America

Latin American Studies and Postcolonial Studies

Latin American Elephants in the Americas?

Works Cited

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

The Cultural Turn and The Decline of Causation

Is All The World an Anecdote?

The Postcolonial Dilemma

The New Macro-History?

Back to The Future: Concluding Remarks

13 “Africa as an Alien Future”

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Part Three: Language, Literacy, Education

14 On English from India

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IV

15 Rhetorical Sovereignty

Sovereignty is (also) rhetorical

Rhetorical sovereignty at the C & R ranch

Works Cited

16 Histories of Publishing under Apartheid

OUP’s Vision for South Africa, 1928–1947

Academic and Educational Publishing, 1946–1962

Constraints on Liberal Publishing, 1962–1970

Censorship and Collaboration, 1962–1970

Crisis and Conflict, 1970–1972

Publishing for Bantu Education, 1970s and 1980s

Conclusion

17 Re-ethicizing the Classroom

Works Cited

Part Four: Nation, Space, Identity

18 Whiteness in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe

Whiteness and Nationalism in Eastern Europe

The Return of The Racist Repressed

Whiteness and The Romans

The Romans as Gypsy

References

19 Asian Canadian Futures

Works cited

20 Ireland, Empire and Utopia

A Response

Ireland and Utopia

Ireland, Empire and Enlightenment

Revival, Rising and Utopia

Conclusion

21 Narrative Agency and Thinking about Conflicts