A companion to postcolonial studies / edited by Henry Schwarz and Sangeeta Ray.

Contributor(s): Schwarz, Henry | Ray, Sangeeta Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: ; | Blackwell companions in cultural studiesPublication details: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2005. Description: xxiv, 608 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 0631206620 (alk. paper); 9780631206620Subject(s): PostcolonialismDDC classification: 325.3 LOC classification: JV51 | .C75 2000Online resources: WorldCat details

Contents:

TOC Mission impossible: introducing postcolonial studies in the US Academy / Henry Schwarz -- Imperialism, colonialism, postcolonialism / Neil Larsen -- Postcolonial feminism/postcolonialism and feminism / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and You-me Park -- Heterogeneity and hybridity: colonial legacy, postcolonial heresy / David Theo Goldberg -- Postcolonialism and postmodernism / Ato Quayson -- Postcolonial studies in the house of US multiculturalism / Jenny Sharpe -- Global capital and transnationalism / Crystal Bartolovich -- A vindication of double consciousness / Doris Sommer -- Human understanding and (Latin) American interests: the politics and sensibilities of geohistorical locations / Walter D. Mignolo -- US imperialism: global dominance without colonies / Donald E. Pease -- Indigenousness and indigeneity / Jace Weaver -- Creolization, orality, and nation language in the Caribbean / Supriya Nair -- Middle-class consciousness and patriotic literature in South Asia / Sumit Sarkar -- Africa: varied colonial legacies / Tejumola Olaniyan -- The "Middle East"? Or-- / Arabic literature and the postcolonial predicament / Magda M. Al-Nowaihi -- King Kong in Hong Kong: watching the "handover" from the USA / Rey Chow -- Japan and East Asia / Sandra Buckley -- Intellectuals, theosophy, and failed narratives of the nation in late colonial Java / Laurie J. Sears -- Settler colonies / Anna Johnston and Alan Lawson -- Ireland after history / David Lloyd -- Global disjunctures, diasporic differences, and the new world (dis- )order / Ali Behdad -- Home, homo, hybrid: translating gender / Geeta Patel -- Humanism in question: Fanon and Said / Anthony C. Alessandrini -- Spivak and Bhabha / Bart Moore-Gilbert -- A small history of subaltern studies / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Feminist theory in perspective / Ipshita Chanda -- Global gay formations and local homosexualities / Katie King -- Rethinking English: postcolonial English studies / Gaurav Desai -- Postcolonial legality / Upendra Baxi -- Race, gender, class, postcolonialism: toward a new humanistic paradigm? / Bruce Robbins.

Summary: "Ranging widely over the major themes, regions, theories, and practices of postcolonial study today, the volume presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, and East and West Asia. Their contributions provide clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the Read more...

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	325.3 COM 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		15658
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	325.3 COM 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-2	Not For Loan		15659

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

TOC Mission impossible: introducing postcolonial studies in the US Academy / Henry Schwarz --
Imperialism, colonialism, postcolonialism / Neil Larsen --
Postcolonial feminism/postcolonialism and feminism / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and You-me Park --
Heterogeneity and hybridity: colonial legacy, postcolonial heresy / David Theo Goldberg --
Postcolonialism and postmodernism / Ato Quayson --
Postcolonial studies in the house of US multiculturalism / Jenny Sharpe --
Global capital and transnationalism / Crystal Bartolovich --
A vindication of double consciousness / Doris Sommer --
Human understanding and (Latin) American interests: the politics and sensibilities of geohistorical locations / Walter D. Mignolo --
US imperialism: global dominance without colonies / Donald E. Pease --
Indigenousness and indigeneity / Jace Weaver --
Creolization, orality, and nation language in the Caribbean / Supriya Nair --
Middle-class consciousness and patriotic literature in South Asia / Sumit Sarkar --
Africa: varied colonial legacies / Tejumola Olaniyan --
The "Middle East"? Or--
/ Arabic literature and the postcolonial predicament / Magda M. Al-Nowaihi --
King Kong in Hong Kong: watching the "handover" from the USA / Rey Chow --
Japan and East Asia / Sandra Buckley --
Intellectuals, theosophy, and failed narratives of the nation in late colonial Java / Laurie J. Sears --
Settler colonies / Anna Johnston and Alan Lawson --
Ireland after history / David Lloyd --
Global disjunctures, diasporic differences, and the new world (dis- )order / Ali Behdad --
Home, homo, hybrid: translating gender / Geeta Patel --
Humanism in question: Fanon and Said / Anthony C. Alessandrini --
Spivak and Bhabha / Bart Moore-Gilbert --
A small history of subaltern studies / Dipesh Chakrabarty --
Feminist theory in perspective / Ipshita Chanda --
Global gay formations and local homosexualities / Katie King --
Rethinking English: postcolonial English studies / Gaurav Desai --
Postcolonial legality / Upendra Baxi --
Race, gender, class, postcolonialism: toward a new humanistic paradigm? / Bruce Robbins.

"Ranging widely over the major themes, regions, theories, and practices of postcolonial study today, the volume presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, and East and West Asia. Their contributions provide clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the Read more...

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