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

• Pubblicazione: Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2005; ©2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (632 p.)
• Disciplina: 325.3
• Soggetto topico: Postcolonialism
• Persona (resp. second.): SchwarzHenry; RaySangeeta
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Chapter 1: Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism -- Chapter 2: Postcolonial Feminism/ Postcolonialism and Feminism -- Chapter 3: Heterogeneity and Hybridity: Colonial Legacy, Postcolonial Heresy -- Chapter 4: Postcolonialism and Postmodernism -- Chapter 5: Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism -- Chapter 6: Global Capital and Transnationalism -- PART II: The Local and the Global -- Chapter 7: A Vindication of Double Consciousness -- Chapter 8: Human Understanding and (Latin) American Interests " The Politics and Sensibilities of Geohistorical Locations -- Chapter 9: US Imperialism: Global Dominance without Colonies -- Chapter 10: Indigenousness and Indigeneity -- Chapter 11: Creolization, Orality and Nation Language in the Caribbean -- Chapter 12: "Middle-class" Consciousness and Patriotic Literature in South Asia -- Chapter 13: Africa: Varied Colonial Legacies -- Chapter 14: The "Middle East"? Or .../ Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial Predicament -- Chapter 15: King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the "Handover" from the USA -- Chapter 16: Japan and East Asia -- Chapter 17: Intellectuals, Theosophy, and Failed Narratives of the Nation in Late Colonial Java -- Chapter 18: Settler Colonies -- Chapter 19: Ireland After History -- Chapter 20: Global Disjunctures, Diasporic Differences, and the New World (Dis-)Order -- Chapter 21: Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender -- PART III: The Inventiveness of Theory -- Chapter 22: Humanism in Question: Fanon and Said -- Chapter 23: Spivak and Bhabha -- Chapter 24: A Small History of Subaltern Studies -- Chapter 25: Feminist Theory in Perspective -- Chapter 26: Global Gay Formations and Local Homosexualities -- PART IV: Cultural Studies and the Accommodation of Postcolonialism -- Chapter 27: Rethinking English: Postcolonial English Studies -- Chapter 28: Postcolonial Legality -- Chapter 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 study. Presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia Provides 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 colonization.
• Titolo autorizzato: Companion to postcolonial studies
• ISBN: 1-280-19859-1; 1-4051-6550-2; 1-4051-4293-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784322003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; ; 2.