The Post-Colonial Studies Reader / Edition 2

by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin

Overview

The essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 121 extracts from key works in the field.

Leading, as well as lesser known figures in the fields of writing, theory and criticism contribute to this inspiring body of work that includes sections on nationalism, hybridity, diaspora and globalization. The Reader's wide-ranging approach reflects the remarkable diversity of work in the discipline along with the vibrancy of anti-imperialist writing both within and without the metropolitan centres. Covering more debates, topics and critics than any comparable book in its field, The Post-Colonial Studies Reader is the ideal starting point for students and issues a potent challenge to the ways in which we think and write about literature and culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415345651
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/07/2005
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	616
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin

Table of Contents

PART I ISSUES AND DEBATES

Introduction

George Lamming - The Occasion for Speaking

Abdul R. JanMohamed - The Economy of Manichean Allegory

3 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Can the Subaltern Speak?

4 Homi K. Bhabha - Signs Taken for Wonders

5 Benita Parry - Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse

6 Stepehen Slemon - The Scramble for Post-Colonialism

PART II UNIVERSALITY AND DIFFERENCE

Introduction

7 Chinuq Achebe - Colonialist Criticism

8 Charles Larson - Heroic Thenocentrism: The Idea of Unversality in Literature

9 Flemming Brahms - Entering Our Own Ignorance: Subject-Object Relationsin Commonwealth Literature

10 Alan J. Bishop - Western Mathematics: The Secret Weapon of Cultural Imperialism

11 Aijaz Ahmad - Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the 'National Allegory'

PART III REPRESENTAION AND RESISTANCE

Introduction

12 Edward W. Said - Oreintalism

13 Jamaica Kincaid - A Small Place

14 Helen Tiffin - Post-Colonial Literatures and Counter-Discourse

15 Jenny Sharpe - Figures of Colonial Resistance

16 Stephen Slemon - Unsettling the Empire: Resistance Theory for the Second World

17 Sara Suleri - The Rhetoric of English India

PART IV POSTMODERNISM AND POST-COLONIALISM

Introduction

Kwame Anthony Appiah - The Postcolonial and the Postmdoern

19 Simon During - Postmodernism or Post-Colonialism Today

Linda Hutcheon - Circling the Downspout of Empire

21 Diana Brydon -- The White Inuit Speaks: Contamination as Literary Strategy

22 Kumkum Sangari - The Politics of the Possible

PART V NATIONALISM

Introduction

23 Frantz Fanon - National Culture

24 Chidi Amuta - Fanon, Cabral and Ngugi on National Liberation

25 Partha Chatterjee - Nationalism as a Problem

26 Alan Lawson - The Discovery of Nationality in Australian and Canadian Literatures

27 Timothy Brennan - The National Longing for Form

28 Homi K. Bhabha - Dissemination: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation

29 David Cairns and Shaun Richards - What Ish My Nation?

PART IV HYBRIDITIY

Introduction

30 Kirsten Holst Petersen and Anna Rutherfourd - Fossil and Psyche

Chniua Achebe - Named for Victoria, Queen of England

32 Jacques Stephen Alexis - Of the Marvellous Realism of the Haitians

33 Michael Dash - Marvellous Realism: The Way out of Negritude

34 Edward Kamau Brathwaite - Creolization in Jamica

35 Homi K. Bhabha - Cultural Diversity and Cultural Differences

PART VII ETHNICITY AND INDIGENEITY

Introduction

36 Trinh T. Minh-ha - No Master Territories

37 Werner Sollors - Who is Ethnic?

Stuart Hall - New Ethnicities

39 Mudrooroo - White Forms, Aboriginal Content

40 Terry Goldie - The Representation of the Indigene

41 Gareth Griffiths - The Myth of Authenticity

42 Margery Fee - Who Can Write as Other

PART VIII FEMINISM AND POST-COLONIALSM

Introduction

43 Kirsten Holst Petersen - First Things First: Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature

44 Ketu H. Katrak - Developing Culture: Toward a Theory for Post-Colonial Women's Texts

45 Chandra Talpade Mohanty - UnderWestern Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses

46 Trinh T. Minh-ha - Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism

47 Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak - Three Women's Texts and a Critque of Imperialism

48 Sara Suleri - Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition

PART IX LANGUAGE

Introduction

49 Ngugi wa Thiong'o - The Language of African Literature

50 Braj B. Kachru - The Alchemy of English

51 Raja Rao - Language of Spirit

52 Bill Ashcroft - Constitutive Graphonomy

53 W. H. New - New Language, New World

54 Edward Kamau Brathwaite - Nation Language

55 Chantal Zabus - Relexification

PART X THE BODY AND PERFORMANCE

Introduction

56 Frantz Fanon - The Fact of Blackness

57 Edward Kamau Brathwaite - Jazz and the West Indian Novel

58 Michael Dash - In Search of the Lost Body: Redefining the Subject in Caribbean Literature

59 Russell McDougall - The Body as Cultural Signifier

60 Helen Gilbert - Dance, Movement and Resistance Politics

61 Kadiatu Kanneh - Feminism and the Colonial Body

62 Gillian Whitlock - Outlaws of the Text

PART XI HISTORY

63 Jose Rabassa - Allegories of Atlas

64 Peter Hulme - Columbus and the Cannibals

65 Derek Walcott - The Muse of History

66 Paul Carter - Spatial History

67 Wilson Harris - The Limbo Gateway

68 Dipesh Chakrabarty - Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History

PART XII PLACE

Introduction

69 Robert Kroetsch - Unhiding the Hidden

70 Dennis Lee - Writing in Colonial Space

71 Paul Carter - Naming Place

72 Graham Huggan - Decolonizing the Map

73 Bob Hodge and Vijay Mishra - Aboriginal Place

74 Alfred W. Crosby - Ecological Imperialism

PART XIII EDUCATION

Introduction

75 Thomas Macaulay - Minute on Indian Education

76 Gauri Viswananthan - The Beginnings of English Literary Study

77 Ngugi wa Thiong'o - On the Abolition of the English Department

78 John Docker - The Neocolonial Assumption in University Teaching of English

79 Arun P. Mukherjee - Ideology in the Classroom: A Case Study in the Teaching of English Literature in Canadian Universitites

80 Philip G. Altbach - Education and Neocolonialism

81 Barbara Christian - The Race for Theory

PART XIV PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION

Introduction

82 Andre Lefevere - The Historiography of African Literature Written in English

83 Peter Hyland - Singapore: Poet, Critic, Audience

84 W. J. T. Mitchell - Postcolonial Culture, Postimperial Criticism

85 S. I. A. Kotei - The Book Today in Africa

86 Philip G. Altbach - Literary Colonialism: Books in the Third World

Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

'Now in its second edition, The Post-Colonial Studies Reader ... is cleary designed as an introduction to the major issues in the field, and therein lies its strength.' – Dipli Saikia, THES

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