A Companion to Postcolonial Studies

This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947. Ranges widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study Presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia Provides clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European colonization Features introductory essays on the major thinkers and intellectual schools that have informed strategies of national liberation worldwide Offers an incisive summary of the long history and theory of modern European colonization in local detail and global scale.

Henry Schwarz is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University, He is author of Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India (1997) and co-editor of Reading the Shape of the World: Toward an International Cultural Studies (1996) and Contributions to Bengal Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Approach (1998). He has published in literary theory, cultural studies, Indian literature, and English imperialism. He is currently US Regional Editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

Sangeeta Ray is currently the Director of the Asian American Studies program at the University of Maryland as well as Associate Professor in the English Department. She has published extensively on feminist postcolonial issues. She is author of En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives (1999).

List of Contributors

ix

Foreword: Upon Reading the Companion to Postcolonial Studies

xv

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Acknowledgments

xxiii

Mission Impossible: Introducing Postcolonial Studies in the US Academy

1

(20)

Henry Schwarz

Part I: Historical and Theoretical Issues

21

(142)

Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism

23

(30)

Neil Larsen

Postcolonial Feminism/Postcolonialism and Feminism

53

(19)

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

You-me Park

Heterogeneity and Hybridity: Colonial Legacy, Postcolonial Heresy

72

(15)

David Theo Goldberg

Postcolonialism and Postmodernism

87

(25)

Ato Quayson

Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism

112

(14)

Jenny Sharpe

Global Capital and Transnationalism

126

(37)

Crystal Bartolovich

Part II: The Local and the Global

163

(266)

A Vindication of Double Consciousness

165

(15)

Doris Sommer

Human Understanding and (Latin) American Interests-The Politics and Sensibilities of Geohistorical Locations

180

(23)

Walter D. Mignolo

US Imperialism: Global Dominance without Colonies

203

(18)

Donald E. Pease

Indigenousness and Indigeneity

221

(15)

Jace Weaver

Creolization, Orality, and Nation Language in the Caribbean

236

(16)

Supriya Nair

Middle-class Consciousness and Patriotic Literature in South Asia

252

(17)

Sumit Sarkar

Africa: Varied Colonial Legacies

269

(13)

Tejumola Olaniyan

The ``Middle East''? Or.../Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial Predicament

282

(22)

Magda M. Al-Nowaihi

King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the ``Handover'' from the USA

304

(15)

Rey Chow

Japan and East Asia

319

(14)

Sandra Buckley

Intellectuals, Theosophy, and Failed Narratives of the Nation in Late Colonial Java

333

(27)

Laurie J. Sears

Settler Colonies

360

(17)

Anna Johnston

Alan Lawson

Ireland After History

377

(19)

David Lloyd

Global Disjunctures, Diasporic Differences, and the New World (Dis-)Order

396

(14)

Ali Behdad

Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender

410

(19)

Geeta Patel

Part III: The Inventiveness of Theory

429

(92)

Humanism in Question: Fanon and Said

431

(20)

Anthony C. Alessandrini

Spivak and Bhabha

451

(16)

Bart Moore-Gilbert

A Small History of Subaltern Studies

467

(19)

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Feminist Theory in Perspective

486

(22)

Ipshita Chanda

Global Gay Formations amd Local Homosexualities

508

(13)

Katie King

Part IV: Cultural Studies and the Accommodation of Postcolonialism

521

(54)

Rethinking English: Postcolonial English Studies

523

(17)

Gaurav Desai

Postcolonial Legality

540

(16)

Upendra Baxi

Race, Gender, Class, Postcolonialism: Toward a New Humanistic Paradigm?

556

(19)

Bruce Robbins

Index

575

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A Companion to Postcolonial Studies

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