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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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The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary (Wiley-Blackwell 2015), the 5-volume edited collection Women in Colonial India: Historical Documents and Sources (2014), Frantz Fanon (2013), Posthumanism (Polity 2013), Colonial Voices: The Discourses of Empire (Wiley-Blackwell 2012), Writing Wrongs: The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).
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This new Anthology brings together the most diverse and recent voices in postcolonial theory, engaging with contemporary concerns such as globalization, digital cultures, neo-colonialism and language debates, and situating these voices within a tradition of postcolonial studies.Establisheddomains, such as nation, history, literature, and gender, are represented with fresh insight and renewed political vigour.TheAnthology provides uniquely broad coverage, offering a full and adequate sense of the tradition,including significant essays on science, technology and development, education and literacy, digital cultures, and transnationalism.
Edited by distinguished postcolonial scholar Pramod K.Nayar, Postcolonial Studies: anAnthology serves scholars and students across multiple disciplines from literary studies to anthropology, cultural studies, and digital studies.Inhalt
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 Ecologies in the Nuclear Pacific 553 Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey
34 Bio-Prospecting or Bio-Piracy: Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity in a Colonial and Postcolonial Context 570 John Merson
Part 8 Globalization, Digital Cultures, Identity 585
35 Global Primordialities: Virtual Identity Politics in Online Hindutva and Online Dalit Discourse 587 Rohit Chopra
36 Hidden Sides of the Credit Economy: Emotions, Outsourcing, and Indian Call Centers 602 Winifred R. Poster
37 eEmpires 627 Rita Raley
38 The Woman on the Other Side of the Wall: Archiving the Otherwise in Postcolonial Digital Archives 652 Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Index 000