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Book SynopsisExamines the changes that have occurred in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947. This book presents 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.
Trade Review"The present volume is one of the largest and most intellectually ambitious collections of essays to emerge in the past decade. Highly recommended, upper-division undergraduates and above in social science and humanities." (
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Table of ContentsList of Contributors ix
Foreword: Upon Reading the Companion to Postcolonial Studies xv
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Acknowledgments xxiii
Mission Impossible: Introducing Postcolonial Studies in the US Academy 1
Henry Schwarz
Part I: Historical and Theoretical Issues 21
1 Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 23
Neil Larsen
2 Postcolonial Feminism/Postcolonialism and Feminism 53
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and You-me Park
3 Heterogeneity and Hybridity: Colonial Legacy, Postcolonial Heresy 72
David Theo Goldberg
4 Postcolonialism and Postmodernism 87
Ato Quayson
5 Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism 112
Jenny Sharpe
6 Global Capital and Transnationalism 126
Crystal Bartolovich
Part II: The Local and the Global 163
7 A Vindication of Double Consciousness 165
Doris Sommer
8 Human Understanding and (Latin) American Interests – The Politics and Sensibilities of Geohistorical Locations 180
Walter D. Mignolo
9 US Imperialism: Global Dominance without Colonies 203
Donald E. Pease
10 Indigenousness and Indigeneity 221
Jace Weaver
11 Creolization, Orality, and Nation Language in the Caribbean 236
Supriya Nair
12 “Middle-class” Consciousness and Patriotic Literature in South Asia 252
Sumit Sarkar
13 Africa: Varied Colonial Legacies 269
Tejumola Olaniyan
14 The “Middle East”? Or . . . /Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial Predicament 282
Magda M. Al-Nowaihi
15 King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the “Handover” from the USA 304
Rey Chow
16 Japan and East Asia 319
Sandra Buckley
17 Intellectuals, Theosophy, and Failed Narratives of the Nation in Late Colonial Java 333
Laurie J. Sears
18 Settler Colonies 360
Anna Johnston and Alan Lawson
19 Ireland After History 377
David Lloyd
20 Global Disjunctures, Diasporic Differences, and the New World (Dis-)Order 396
Ali Behdad
21 Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender 410
Geeta Patel
Part III: The Inventiveness of Theory 429
22 Humanism in Question: Fanon and Said 431
Anthony C. Alessandrini
23 Spivak and Bhabha 451
Bart Moore-Gilbert
24 A Small History of Subaltern Studies 467
Dipesh Chakrabarty
25 Feminist Theory in Perspective 486
Ipshita Chanda
26 Global Gay Formations amd Local Homosexualities 508
Katie King
Part IV: Cultural Studies and the Accommodation of Postcolonialism 521
27 Rethinking English: Postcolonial English Studies 523
Gaurav Desai
28 Postcolonial Legality 540
Upendra Baxi
29 Race, Gender, Class, Postcolonialism: Toward a New Humanistic Paradigm? 556
Bruce Robbins
Postscript: Popular Perceptions of Postcolonial Studies after 9/11 574
Sangeeta Ray
Index 584
