Description
Book SynopsisRecently, the issues of colonialism and imperialism have come to the forefront of thinking in the humanities. This volume examines relevant issues from a range of historical perspectives. Central to the whole volume is a critique of the idea of the "post-colonial" itself.
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Transculturation and autoethnography: Peru 1615/1980
Mary Louise Pratt
Chapter 2 Rousseau’s patrimony: primitivism, romance and becoming other
Simon During
Chapter 3 The locked heart: the creole family romance of Wide Sargasso Sea
Peter Hulme
Chapter 4 The recalcitrant object: culture contact and the question of hybritidy
Annie E. Coombes
Chapter 5 Anthropology and race in Brazilian modernism
Zita Nuñes
Chapter 6 How to read a ‘culturally different’ book
Gayatri Spivak
Chapter 7 Post-apartheid narratives
Graham Pechey
Chapter 8 Resistance theory/theorising resistance, or two cheers for nativism
Benita Parry
Chapter 9 National consicousness and the specificity of (post) colonial intellectualism
Neil Lazarus
Chapter 10 Ethnic cultures, minority discourse and the state
David Lloyd
Chapter 11 Social justice and the crisis of national communities
Renato Rosaldo
Chapter 12 The angel of progress: pitfalls of the term ‘postcolonialism’
Anne McClintock
References
Notes on contributors
Index
