A companion to postcolonial studies / edited by Henry Schwarz and Sangeeta Ray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schwarz, Henry

Ray, Sangeeta.

Series:

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 2.

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism.

Colonization--Philosophy.

Colonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 608 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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

Part II: The Local and the Global; 7 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

16 Japan and East Asia; 17 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

27 Rethinking English: Postcolonial English Studies; 28 Postcolonial Legality; 29 Race, Gender, Class, Postcolonialism: Toward a New Humanistic Paradigm?; Postscript: Popular Perceptions of Postcolonial Studies after 9/11; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610198597

9781782687047

1782687041

9780470997024

0470997028

9780470998335

0470998334

OCLC:

184983695