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Book SynopsisWith diverse essays that emerge from such disciplines as South Asian, Latin American, Arab, and Jewish studies, this book responds to sceptics and adherers alike, addressing theoretical issues at stake within the field and position of the field itself within the academy, as well as its relationship to modern, post-modern, and Marxist discourses.
Trade Review“A timely intervention in the debates surrounding the contribution made by postcolonial theory and the status of the discipline indicated by the term ‘postcolonial.’ This anthology enables a broadening and deepening of the field.”—Sangeeta Ray, author of
En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial NarrativesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
At the Margins of Postcolonial Studies: Part 1 / Kalpana Sheshadri-Crooks 3
At the Margins of Postcolonial Studies: Part 2 / Fawzia Afzal-Khan 24
1. The Occupation of Postcolonial Studies: Knowledge and Institutional Politics
Postmodernism and the Rest of the World / R. Radhakrishnan 37
Une Pratique Sauvage: Postcolonial Belatedness and Cultural Politics / Ali Behdad 71
(Post)Occidentalism, (Post)Coloniality, and (Post)Subaltern Rationality / Walter Mignolo 86
Borders and Bridges: Seeking Connections between Things / Ngugi Wa Thiongo 119
Notes on the "Post-Colonial" / Ella Shohat 126
DetermiNation: Postcolonialism, Poststructuralism, and the Problem of Ideology / Neil Larsen 140
Secularism, Elitism, Progress, and Other Transgressions: On Edward Said's "Voyage In" / Bruce Robbins 157
2. The Preoccupations of Postcolonial Studies: Modernity, Sexuality, Nation
Street Theater in Pakistani Punjab: The Case of Ajoka, Lok Rehs, and the (So-Called) Woman Question / Fawzia Afzal-Khan 171
Beyond the Hysterectomies Scandal: Women, the Institution, the Family, and State in India / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 200
The Colonial Drag: Zionism, Gender, and Mimicry / Daniel Boyarin 234
Postcolonial Literature in a Neocolonial World: Modern Arabic Culture and the End of Modernity / Saree Makdisi 266
Self-Othering: A Postcolonial Discourse on Cinematic First Contacts / Hamid Naficy 292
The "Post-Colonial" Colony: Time, Space, and Bodies in Palestine/Israel / Joseph Massad 311
Postcolonial Theory in an American Context: A Reading of Martin Delany's
Blake / Timothy Powell 347
Postscript
Surviving Theory: A Conversation with Homi K. Bhabha / Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks 369
Works Cited 381
Contributors 403
Index 407
Permissions 413
