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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827692603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2000

ISBN

9786610198597

9781782687047

1782687041

9780470997024

0470997028

9780470998335

0470998334

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 608 pages)

Collana

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

SchwarzHenry

RaySangeeta

Disciplina

306

325.3

Soggetti

Postcolonialism

Colonization - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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