The post-colonial studies reader /

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"One of the most exciting features of English literatures today is the explosion of post-colonial literatures, those literatures written in English in formerly colonised societies. This field has given rise to a great range of theoretical ideas, concepts, problems and debates, and these have...

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Other Authors: Ashcroft, Bill, 1946-, Griffiths, Gareth, 1943-, Tiffin, Helen
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
Subjects:
Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism.
English literature > Developing countries > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism > Commonwealth countries.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/94017829-d.html
Table of Contents:
  • The occasion for speaking / George Lamming
  • The economy of Manichean allegory / Abdul R. JanMohamed
  • Can the subaltern speak? / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  • Signs taken for wonders / Homi K. Bhabha
  • Problems in current theories of colonial discourse / Benita Parry
  • The scramble for post-colonialsm / Stephen Slemon
  • Colonialist criticism / Chinua Achebe
  • Heroic ethnocentrism : the idea of universality in literature / Charles Larson
  • Entering our own ignorance : subject-object relations in commonwealth literature / Flemming Brahms
  • Western mathematics : the secret weapon of cultural imperialsim / Alan J. Bishop
  • Jameson's rhetoric of otherness and the "National allegory" / Aijaz Ahmad
  • Orientalism / Edward W. Said
  • A small place / Jamaica Kincaid
  • Post-colonial literatures and counter-discourse / Helen Tiffin
  • Figures of colonial resistance / Jenny Sharpe
  • Unsettling the empire : resistance theory for the second world / Stephen Slemon
  • The rhetoric of English India / Sara Suleri
  • The postcolonial and the postmodern / Kwame Anthony Appiah
  • Postmodernism or post-colonialism today / Simon During
  • Circling the downspout of empire / Linda Hutcheon. The white Inuit speaks : contamination as literary strategy / Diane Brydon
  • The politics of the possible / Kumkum Sangari
  • National culture / Frantz Fanon
  • Fanon, Cabral and Ngugi on national liberation / Chidi Amuta
  • Nationalism as a problem / Partha Chatterjee
  • The discovery of nationality in Australian and Canadian literatures / Alan Lawson
  • The national longing for form / Timothy Brennan
  • Dissemination : time, narrative, and the margins of the modern nation / Homi K. Bhabha
  • What is my nation? / David Cairns and Shaun Richards
  • Fossil and psyche / Kirsten Holst Petersen and Anna Rutherford
  • Named for Victoria, Queen of England / Chinua Achebe
  • Of the marvellous realism of the Haitians / Jacques Stephen Aléxis
  • Marvellous realism : the way out of négrigtude / Michael Dash
  • Creolization in Jamaica / Edward Kamau Brathwaite
  • Cultural diversity and cultural differences / Homi K. Bhabha
  • No master territories / Trinh T. Minh-ha
  • Who is ethnic?
  • Werner-Sollors
  • New ethnicities / Stuart Hall
  • White forms, aboriginal content / Mudrooroo
  • The representation of the indigene / Terry Goldie
  • The myth of authenticity / Gareth Griffiths
  • Who can write as other? / Margery Fee. First things first : problems of a feminist approach to African literature / Kirsten Holst Petersen
  • Decolonizing culture : toward a theory for Post-colonial women's texts / Ketu H. Katrak
  • Under Western eyes : feminist scholarship and colonial discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty
  • Writing postcoloniality and feminism / Trinh T. Minh-ha
  • Three women's texts and a critique of imperialism / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  • Woman skin deep : feminism and the postcolonial condition / Sara Suleri
  • The language of African literature / Ngugi wa Thiongó
  • The alchemy of English / Braj B. Kachru
  • Language and spirit / Raja Rao
  • Constitutive graphonomy / Bill Ashcroft
  • New language, new world / W.H. New
  • Nation language / Edward Kamau Brathwaite
  • Relexification / Chantal Zabus
  • The fact of blackness / Frantz Fanon
  • Jazz and the West Indian novel / Edward Kamau Brathwaite
  • In search of the lost body : redefining the subject in Caribbean literature / Michael Dash
  • The body as cultural signifier / Russell McDougall
  • Dance, movement and resistance politics / Helen Gilbert
  • Feminism and the colonial body / Kadiatu Kanneh
  • Outlaws of the text / Gillian Whitlock
  • Allegories of Atlas / José Rabasa
  • Columbus and the cannibals / Peter Hulme
  • The muse of history / Derek Walcott
  • Spatial history / Paul Carter
  • The limbo gateway / Wilson Harris. Postcoloniality and the artifice of history / Dipesh Chakrabarty
  • Unhiding the hidden / Robert Kroetsch
  • Writing in colonial space / Dennis Lee
  • Naming place / Paul Carter
  • Decolonizing the map / Graham Huggan
  • Aboriginal place / Bob Hodge and Vijay Mishra
  • Ecological imperialism / Alfred W. Crosby
  • Minute on Indian education / Thomas Macaulay
  • The beginnings of English literary study in British India / Gauri Viswanathan
  • On the abolition of the English department / Ngugi wa Thiongó
  • The neocolonial assumption in university teaching of English / John Docker
  • Ideology in the classroom : a case study in the teaching of English literature in Canadian universities / Arun P. Mukherjee
  • Education and neocolonialism / Philip G. Altbach
  • The race for theory / Barbara Christian
  • The historiography of African literature written in English / André Lefevere
  • Singapore : poet, critic, audience / Peter Hyland
  • Postcolonial culture, postimperial criticism / W.J.T. Mitchell
  • The book today in Africa / S.I.A. Kotei
  • Literary colonialism : books in the Third World / Philip G. Altbach.

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