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Book Synopsis* Brings together well--established contributors and emergent scholars in postcolonialism. * Presents essays in dialogue with each other to create a controversial collection that examines the current state of postcolonial studies.
Trade Review"Taken together, the diverse contributions to this book represent a sustained attempt to bring postcolonial criticism into a dialogue with some of the most pressing and enduring issues of our times. I cannot think of any other book that helps us to see so clearly where postcolonial criticism is headed."
Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago "This volume is a fine demonstration of the inexhaustible connectivity of postcolonialism-as-critical-thinking – not only across academic disciplines and sociopolitical formations but also across generations of scholars with divergent intellectual practices. For anyone concerned with this major field of knowledge, it will prove a stimulating and rewarding read." Rey Chow, Brown University
"This much needed collection indicates the continuing significance of postcolonial discourse today and its complex relationship to fields such as critical race theory, ethnic studies, and disability studies. The wide-ranging discussions will make this volume particularly useful to scholars committed to cross-cultural exchanges." Sangeeta Ray, University of Maryland
Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgements x
Introduction: Scale and Sensibility xi
Ato Quayson and David Theo Goldberg
1 In Conversation with Neeladri Bhattacharya, Suvir Kaul and Ania Loomba 1
Edward Said
2 Speaking of Postcoloniality, in the Continuous Present: A Conversation 15
Homi Bhabha and John Comaroff
3 Resident Alien 47
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
4 Directions and Dead-ends in Postcolonial Studies 66
Benita Parry
5 Racial Rule 82
David Theo Goldberg
6 Racist Visions for the Twenty-first Century: On the Cultural Politics of the French Radical Right 103
Ann Laura Stoler
7 Breaking the Silence and a Break with the Past: African Oral Histories and the Transformations of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Southern Ghana 122
Anne Bailey
8 Forgotten Like a Bad Dream: Atlantic Slavery and the Ethics of Postcolonial Memory 143
Barnor Hesse
9 Connectivity, and the Fate of the Unconnected 174
Olu Oguibe
10 Towards ReConciliation: The Post-Colonial Economy of Giving 184
Pal Ahluwalia
11 The Economy of Ideas: Colonial Gift and Postcolonial Product 205
Zane Ma-Rhea
12 Looking Awry: Tropes of Disability in Postcolonial Writing 217
Ato Quayson
13 Theorizing Disability 231
Rosemarie Garland Thomson
14 Nature, History, and the Failure of Language: The Problem of the Human in Post-Apartheid South Africa 270
John K. Noyes
15 Passing as Korean American 282
Wendy Ann Lee
16 Myths of East and West: Intellectual Property Law in Postcolonial Hong Kong 294
Eve Darian-Smith
17 A Flexible Foundation: Constructing A Postcolonial Dialogue 320
Dawn Duncan
18 Linguists and Postcolonial Literature: Englishes in the Classroom 334
Laura Wright and Jonathan Hope
19 Post-Scriptum 349
François Vergès
Index 359
