Companion to Postcolonial Studies (eBook)

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

Henry Schwarz

Part I: Historical and Theoretical Issues 21

1 Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 23

Neil Larsen

2 Postcolonial Feminism/Postcolonialism and Feminism 53

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and You-me Park

3 Heterogeneity and Hybridity: Colonial Legacy, Postcolonial
Heresy 72

David Theo Goldberg

4 Postcolonialism and Postmodernism 87

Ato Quayson

5 Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism
112

Jenny Sharpe

6 Global Capital and Transnationalism 126

Crystal Bartolovich

Part II: The Local and the Global 163

7 A Vindication of Double Consciousness 165

Doris Sommer

8 Human Understanding and (Latin) American Interests - The
Politics and Sensibilities of Geohistorical Locations 180

Walter D. Mignolo

9 US Imperialism: Global Dominance without Colonies 203

Donald E. Pease

10 Indigenousness and Indigeneity 221

Jace Weaver

11 Creolization, Orality, and Nation Language in the Caribbean
236

Supriya Nair

12 "Middle-class" Consciousness and Patriotic
Literature in South Asia 252

Sumit Sarkar

13 Africa: Varied Colonial Legacies 269

Tejumola Olaniyan

14 The "Middle East"? Or . . . /Arabic Literature
and the Postcolonial Predicament 282

Magda M. Al-Nowaihi

15 King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the "Handover"
from the USA 304

Rey Chow

16 Japan and East Asia 319

Sandra Buckley

17 Intellectuals, Theosophy, and Failed Narratives of the Nation
in Late Colonial Java 333

Laurie J. Sears

18 Settler Colonies 360

Anna Johnston and Alan Lawson

19 Ireland After History 377

David Lloyd

20 Global Disjunctures, Diasporic Differences, and the New World
(Dis-)Order 396

Ali Behdad

21 Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender 410

Geeta Patel

Part III: The Inventiveness of Theory 429

22 Humanism in Question: Fanon and Said 431

Anthony C. Alessandrini

23 Spivak and Bhabha 451

Bart Moore-Gilbert

24 A Small History of Subaltern Studies 467

Dipesh Chakrabarty

25 Feminist Theory in Perspective 486

Ipshita Chanda

26 Global Gay Formations amd Local Homosexualities 508

Katie King

Part IV: Cultural Studies and the Accommodation of
Postcolonialism 521

27 Rethinking English: Postcolonial English Studies 523

Gaurav Desai

28 Postcolonial Legality 540

Upendra Baxi

29 Race, Gender, Class, Postcolonialism: Toward a New Humanistic
Paradigm? 556

Bruce Robbins

Postscript: Popular Perceptions of Postcolonial Studies after
9/11 574

Sangeeta Ray

Index 584

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