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Book SynopsisThis book articles presents new scholarship on the subject of imperial expansion through colonization and globalization from a variety of postcolonial perspectives. The essays in this volume, grouped in three chapters, scrutinize imperial expansion within the context of national identities and imageries-deconstructing the modernist and utopian idea of a nation as a site of homogeneity, and reviewing the importance of the concept in the different phases of colonization. Hence the first chapter is entitled ''Neo-Imperial Traces or Premonitions in Modernism.'' The post-classical phase of colonialism is examined through the representation of the colonized and the once-colonized. Applying postcolonial theories and often moving beyond them, scholars scrutinize such textual and filmic representations as exemplified in Asia. These make up Chapter Two, ''Interference of the Imperial Tradition in Asia,'' which allows for the re-articulations of cultural heritage in the region within the differen
Trade ReviewCovering a wide range of texts—from contemporary British detective fiction to Hollywood's King Solomon's Mines—the essays in this collection deploy a variety of postcolonial approaches to examine and argue for a continuum between colonialism and globalization. This is a timely, refreshing volume, which will be of keen interest to scholars of contemporary literature and culture. -- Padmini Mongia, editor of Contemporary Postcolonial Theory
This is an excellent and timely intervention into the dialogue between postcolonialism and globalization studies, emphasizing as it does the utility and adaptability of postcolonial concepts to a rapidly changing world. The collection demonstrates with admirable clarity the ways in which the imperial enterprise has developed globally and shows how valuable postcolonial analyses have become. -- Bill Ashcroft, author of Intimate Horizons: the Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature
Table of ContentsChapter 1 The Language of Imperial Expansion Pg. vii Part 2 I. Neo-Imperial Traces or Premonitions in Modernity Chapter 3 Empire, the Question of Representation and the Erasure of Inhabitancy Chapter 4 Contemporary Hollywood and the Persistence of the Empire: Nostalgia and Post-Imperial Voyeurism in Hallmark's King Solomon's Mines Chapter 5 British Nostalgia for the Ottoman Past: The Legible Multiethnicity of Old Istanbul in the Works of Barbara Nadel and Jason Goodwin Chapter 6 Utopian Fiction and Imperial Homogeneity: The Case of William Morris's News from Nowhere and Yussuf Sybaai's The Land of Hypocrisy Part 7 II. Interference of the Imperial Tradition in Asia Chapter 8 Colonizing the Mind: Education and Literacy in Colonial India Chapter 9 Re-presenting the Empire: the Picturesque Aesthetic in 69Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players Chapter 10 Deconstructing the Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy: Arundhati Roy's Political Essays Chapter 11 Nuclear Imperialism: The United States and Micronesia Part 12 III. Reformulations of the Imperial Project Chapter 13 The Nemesis of Empire as Mimesis Chapter 14 Empire, Allegorical Imperative, and Games of Truth: J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians Chapter 15 "Child-Emporererer (Vacncy)": Apprehending U.S. Empire through Robert Fitterman's Metropolis Chapter 16 The "Armageddon Election" and the Antichrist Debates Chapter 17 Imperialism is on the March: Market Tyranny and the Fight Beyond Revolution
