ISBN:
9780631206620
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (634 p.)
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions in cultural studies v.2
Parallel Title:
Print version A Companion to Postcolonial Studies
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Colonization ; Philosophy
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Postcolonialism
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 studyPresents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West AsiaProvides 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 coloniz
Description / Table of Contents:
A Companion to Postcolonial Studies; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword: Upon Reading the Companion to Postcolonial Studies; Acknowledgments; Mission Impossible: Introducing Postcolonial Studies in the US Academy; Part I: Historical and Theoretical Issues; 1 Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism; 2 Postcolonial Feminism/ Postcolonialism and Feminism; 3 Heterogeneity and Hybridity: Colonial Legacy, Postcolonial Heresy; 4 Postcolonialism and Postmodernism; 5 Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism; 6 Global Capital and Transnationalism
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II: The Local and the Global7 A Vindication of Double Consciousness; 8 Human Understanding and (Latin) American Interests - The Politics and Sensibilities of Geohistorical Locations; 9 US Imperialism: Global Dominance without Colonies; 10 Indigenousness and Indigeneity; 11 Creolization, Orality and Nation Language in the Caribbean; 12 "Middle-class" Consciousness and Patriotic Literature in South Asia; 13 Africa: Varied Colonial Legacies; 14 The "Middle East"? Or …/ Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial Predicament; 15 King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the "Handover" from the USA
Description / Table of Contents:
16 Japan and East Asia17 Intellectuals, Theosophy, and Failed Narratives of the Nation in Late Colonial Java; 18 Settler Colonies; 19 Ireland After History; 20 Global Disjunctures, Diasporic Differences, and the New World (Dis-)Order; 21 Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender; Part III: The Inventiveness of Theory; 22 Humanism in Question: Fanon and Said; 23 Spivak and Bhabha; 24 A Small History of Subaltern Studies; 25 Feminist Theory in Perspective; 26 Global Gay Formations and Local Homosexualities; Part IV: Cultural Studies and the Accommodation of Postcolonialism
Description / Table of Contents:
27 Rethinking English: Postcolonial English Studies28 Postcolonial Legality; 29 Race, Gender, Class, Postcolonialism: Toward a New Humanistic Paradigm?; Postscript: Popular Perceptions of Postcolonial Studies after 9/11; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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