Description
Book Synopsis* Provides an entirely new approach to the subject of post--colonialism which will completely re--orientate the field. * Unique to this Reader is a section on Ireland which highlights a new approach to resistance to empire. * Offers students a sense of the heterogeneity and plurality of the field.
Trade Review"Gregory Castle has assembled a rich collection of key texts which will succeed in introducing postcolonialism to newcomers (above all students) while at the same time provide a useful store of critical materials for those further into the field (above all lecturers, researchers and scholars). This is a well-gathered collection, representing significant writing over the last 20 or so years, and demonstrating excellent research and a sure knowledge of the field in its choice and arrangement of material. This is a work with a first-rate set of ideas and references. The hardback is an excellent addition to the library shelf and the paperback a must for personal reading, particularly for serious students of the subject."
Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsThematic Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Editor’s Introduction: Resistance and Complicity in Postcolonial Studies.
Selected Bibliography..
Part I: Post-Colonial Discourses: Complicity and Critique.
"Spontaneity: Its Strength and Weakness" (Frantz Fanon).
"Discrepant Experiences" (Edward W Said).
"Unsatisfied: Notes on Vernacular Cosmopolitanism" (Homi K Bhabha).
"The Burden of English" (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak).
"Colonialism and Desiring Machines" (Robert Young).
"Post-Colonial Critical Theories" (Stephen Slemon).
Part II: Indian Nations: The Conundrum of Difference.
"The Prose of Counter-Insurgency" (Ranajit Guha).
"The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question" (Partha Chatterjee).
"Representing Sati: Continuities and Discontinuities" (Rajeswari Sunder Rajan).
"Nationalism, Gender, and the Narrative of Identity" (R Radhakrishnan).
Part III: African Identities: Resistance and Race.
"An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" (Chinua Achebe).
"African Identities" (Kwame Anthony Appiah).
"Unsystematic Fingers at the Conditions of Times': 'Afropop' and the Paradoxes of Imperialism" (Neil Lazarus).
"Sheroes and Villains: Conceptualizing Colonial and Contemporary Violence Against Women in Africa" (Amina Mana).
Part IV: Caribbean Encounters: Revolution, Hybridity, Diaspora.
"Colonialism and the Caribbean Novel" (George Lamming).
"Negotiating Caribbean Identities" (Stuart Hall).
"Survival and Invention: Indigeneity in the Caribbean" (Peter Hulme).
"Sending the Younger Son Across the Wide Sargasso Sea: The New Colonizer Arrives" (Moira Ferguson).
Part V: Rump Commonwealth: Settler Colonies and the "Second World".
"Crimes and Punishments" (Bob Hodge and Vijay Mishra).
"Colonizing Gender in Colonial Australia: The Eliza Fraser Story" (Kay Schafer).
"The Body in the Library: Identity, Opposition, and the Settler-Invader Woman" (Helen Tiffin).
"Out of the Center: Thoughts on the Post-Colonial Literatures of Australia and New Zealand" (Ralph J Crane).
Part VI: The Case of Ireland: Inventing Nations.
"Adulteration and the Nation" (David Lloyd).
"Reading in a Woman's Death: Colonial Text and Oral Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland" (Angela Bourke).
"Deanglicization" (Declan Kiberd).
"Race Against Time: Racial Discourse and Irish History" (Luke Gibbons).
Glossary.
Index.
