Postcolonialisms : an anthology of cultural theory and criticism / edited by Gaurav Desai and Supriya Nair.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Desai, Gaurav Gajanan.

Nair, Supriya, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

xii, 656 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2005]

Summary:

Bringing together thirty-seven essays that have helped define the study of colonial and post-colonial cultures, this expansive and thoughtfully organized anthology offers an up-to-date and in-depth overview of this rapidly developing field.

Canonical articles, most unexcerpted, explore postcolonialism's key themes-power and knowledge-while articles by contemporary scholars expand the discipline to include discussions of the discovery of the New World, Native American and indigenous identities in Latin America and the Pacific, settler colonies in Africa and Australia, English colonialism in Ireland, and feminism in Nigeria and Egypt. The inclusion of a broad sampling of histories and theories attests to multiple, even competing postcolonialisms, while the skillful organization of the volume provides a useful map of the field in terms of recognizable patterns, shared family resemblances, and common genealogies. Detailed introductions to each section serve to develop key themes, encourage debate, and contextualize the wide-ranging voices that contribute to the topic.

The most cogent and teachable collection of postcolonial texts yet compiled, this anthology is equally suitable for undergraduate students and for seasoned scholars.

Contents:

I Ideologies of Imperialism 13

1 "The Letter of Christopher Columbus on the Discovery of America" / Christopher Columbus 18

2 "Speech in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings" / Edmund Burke 25

3 "The Value of British Rule in the Tropics to British Democracy and the Native Races" / Frederick Lugard 35

II The Critique of Colonial Discourse 47

4 "Romanus Pontifex (1454) and the Expansion of Europe" / Valentin Y. Mudimbe 51

5 From Discourse on Colonialism / Aime Cesaire 60

6 "Caliban: Notes towards a Discussion of Culture in Our America" / Roberto Fernandez Retamar 65

7 "Introduction" to Orientalism / Edward W. Said 71

8 "Imperialism, History, Writing, and Theory" / Linda Tuhiwai Smith 94

III The Politics of Language and Literary Studies 117

9 "Minute on Indian Education, February 2, 1835" / Thomas Babington Macaulay 121

10 "The English Language in Liberia" / Alexander Crummell 132

11 "The Language of African Literature" / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o 143

12 "Writing Oral History: Sistren Theatre Collective's Lionheart Gal" / Carolyn Cooper 169

IV Nationalisms and Nativisms 179

13 "Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century" / Leopold Sedar Senghor 183

14 "The African Novel and Its Critics (1950-1975)" / Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie, Ihechukwu Madubuike 191

15 "On National Culture" / Frantz Fanon 198

16 "The Tyrannies of Unanimism" / Paul Gilroy 220

V Hybrid Identities 249

17 "The Threat of Abandonment" / Octave Mannoni 253

18 "The Caribbean: Culture or Mimicry?" / Derek Walcott 257

19 "Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse" / Homi Bhabha 265

20 "In Praise of Creoleness" / Jean Bernabe, Patrick Chamoiseau, Raphael Confiant 274

21 "How (!) Is an Indian?: A Contest of Stories" / Jana Sequoya 290

VI Genders and Sexualities 311

22 "The Discourse of the Veil" / Leila Ahmed 315

23 "Colonizing Bodies and Minds: Gender and Colonialism" / Oyeronke Oyewumi 339

24 "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 362

25 "'Bullers' and 'Battymen': Contesting Homophobia in Black Popular Culture and Contemporary Caribbean Literature" / Timothy S. Chin 381

VII Reading the Subaltern 399

26 "On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India" / Ranajit Guha 403

27 "Outside History: Irish New Histories and the 'Subalternity Effect'" / David Lloyd 410

28 "Our Rigoberta? I, Rigoberta Menchu, Cultural Authority, and the Problem of Subaltern Agency" / John Beverley 427

29 "The Primitivist and the Postcolonial" / Nicholas Thomas 448

VIII Comparative (Post)colonialisms 469

30 "Apology Bill: Public Law 103-150" / U.S. Congress 473

31 "Manifest Domesticity" / Amy Kaplan 479

32 "When Does a Settler Become a Native?: Citizenship and Identity in a Settler Society" / Pal Ahluwalia 500

33 "Is the Post- in Postcolonial the Post- in Post-Soviet?: Toward a Global Postcolonial Critique" / David Chioni Moore 514

IX Globalization and Postcoloniality 539

34 "Thinking the Diaspora: Home-Thoughts from Abroad" / Stuart Hall 543

35 "The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism" / Arif Dirlik 561

36 "Against the Lures of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women, and Intellectual Hegemony" / Rey Chow 589

37 "Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality" / Simon Gikandi 608

Alternative Arrangements for Postcolonialisms 635.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-646) and index.

ISBN:

0813535514

0813535522

OCLC:

55962398