After colonialism : imperial histories and postcolonial displacements / edited by Gyan Prakash.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prakash, Gyan, 1952-

Series:

Princeton studies in culture/power/history.

Princeton studies in culture/power/history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies--History.

Colonies.

Imperialism--History.

Imperialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 352 pages)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America to Europe--the essays in this volume reexamine colonialism and its aftermath. Leading literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists engage with recent theories and perspectives in their specific studies, showing the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world and offering postcolonial reflections on the effects and experience of empire. The contributions cross historical analysis of texts with textual examination of historical records and situate metropolitan cultural practices in engagements with non-metropolitan locations. Interdisciplinarity here means exploring and realigning disciplinary boundaries. Contributors to After Colonialism include Edward Said, Steven Feierman, Joan Dayan, Ruth Phillips, Anthony Pagden, Leonard Blussé, Gauri Viswanathan, Zachary Lockman, Jorge Klor de Alva, Irene Silverblatt, Emily Apter, and Homi Bhabha.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: After Colonialism / Prakash, Gyan

PART ONE: COLONIALISM AND THE DISCIPLINES

Chapter 1. Secular Interpretation, the Geographical Element, and the Methodology of Imperialism / Said, Edward

Chapter 2. Africa in History: The End of Universal Narratives / Feierman, Steven

Chapter 3. Haiti, History, and the Gods / Dayan, Joan

Chapter 4. Why Not Tourist Art? Significant Silences in Native American Museum Representations / Phillips, Ruth B.

PART TWO: COLONIALISMAND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE

Chapter 5. The Effacement of Difference: Colonialism and the Origins of Nationalism in Diderot and Herder / Pagden, Anthony

Chapter 6. Retribution and Remorse: The Interaction between the Administration and the Protestant Mission in Early Colonial Formosa / Blussé, Leonard

Chapter 7. Coping with (Civil) Death: The Christian Convert's Rights of Passage in Colonial India / Viswanathan, Gauri

Chapter 8. Exclusion and Solidarity: Labor Zionism and Arab Workers in Palestine, 1897-1929 / Lockman, Zachary

Chapter 9. The Postcolonization of the (Latin) American Experience: A Reconsideration of "Colonialism," "Postcolonialism," and "Mestizaje" / Klor de Alva, J. Jorge

PART THREE: COLONIAL DISCOURSE AND ITS DISPLACEMENTS

Chapter 10. Becoming Indian in the Central Andes of Seventeenth-Century Peru / Silverblatt, Irene

Chapter 11. Ethnographic Travesties: Colonial Realism, French Feminism, and the Case of Elissa Rhaïs / Apter, Emily

Chapter 12. In a Spirit of Calm Violence / Bhabha, Homi K.

Notes on the Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612752032

9781282752030

1282752030

9781400821440

1400821444

9781400813049

1400813042

OCLC:

52714997