Post-Colonial Studies Reader

This exhaustive collection of key texts in post-colonial theory and criticism covers a huge range of topics and features nearly ninety of the most widely read pieces of post-colonial writing. Contributors include Frantz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Gayatri Spivak, Ngugui wa Thiong'o, Homi Bhabha, Dere...

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Main Authors Ashcroft, Bill, Griffiths, Gareth, Tiffin, Helen
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London Routledge 1994
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
Subjects
Colonial history
Colonies in literature
Commonwealth literature (English)
Decolonization
Decolonization in literature
Developing countries
English literature
History and criticism
Imperialism in literature
Literature
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  • Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction -- Introduction -- The Occasion for Speaking -- The Economy of Manichean Allegory -- Can the Subaltern Speak? -- Signs Taken for Wonders -- Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse -- The Scramble for Post-colonialism -- Introduction -- Colonialist Criticism -- Heroic Ethnocentrism: The Idea of Universality in Literature -- Entering Our Own Ignorance: Subject-Object Relations in Commonwealth Literature -- Western Mathematics: The Secret Weapon of Cultural Imperialism -- Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the 'National Allegory' -- Introduction -- Orientalism -- A Small Place -- Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse -- Figures of Colonial Resistance -- Unsettling the Empire: Resistance Theory for the Second World -- The Rhetoric of English India -- Introduction -- The Postcolonial and the Postmodern -- Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today -- Circling the Downspout of Empire -- The White Inuit Speaks: Contamination as Literary Strategy -- The Politics of the Possible -- Introduction -- National Culture -- Fanon, Cabral and Ngugi on National Liberation -- Nationalism as a Problem -- The Discovery of Nationality in Australian and Canadian Literatures -- The National Longing for Form -- Dissemination: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation -- What Ish My Nation? -- Introduction -- Fossil and Psyche -- Named for Victoria, Queen of England -- Of the Marvellous Realism of the Haitians -- Marvellous Realism: The Way out of Negritude -- Creolization in Jamaica -- Cultural Diversity and Cultural Differences -- Introduction -- No Master Territories -- Who is Ethnic? -- New Ethnicities -- White Forms, Aboriginal Content -- The Representation of the Indigene -- The Myth of Authenticity -- Who Can Write as Other?
  • Introduction -- First Things First: Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature -- Decolonizing Culture: Toward a Theory for Post-colonial Women's Texts -- Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses -- Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism -- Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism -- Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition -- Introduction -- The Language of African Literature -- The Alchemy of English -- Language and Spirit -- Constitutive Graphonomy -- New Language, New World -- Nation Language -- Relexification -- Introduction -- The Fact of Blackness -- Jazz and the West Indian Novel -- In Search of the Lost Body: Redefining the Subject in Caribbean Literature -- The Body as Cultural Signifier -- Dance, Movement and Resistance Politics -- Feminism and the Colonial Body -- Outlaws of the Text -- Introduction -- Allegories of Atlas -- Columbus and the Cannibals -- The Muse of History -- Spatial History -- The Limbo Gateway -- Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History -- Introduction -- Unhiding the Hidden -- Writing in Colonial Space -- Naming Place -- Decolonizing the Map -- Aboriginal Place -- Ecological Imperialism -- Introduction -- Minute on Indian Education -- The Beginnings of English Literary Study in British India -- On the Abolition of the English Department -- The Neocolonial Assumption in University Teaching of English -- Ideology in the Classroom: A Case Study in the Teaching of English Literature in Canadian Universities -- Education and Neocolonialism -- The Race for Theory -- Introduction -- The Historiography of African Literature Written in English -- Singapore: Poet, Critic, Audience -- Postcolonial Culture, Postimperial Criticism -- The Book Today in Africa -- Literary Colonialism: Books in the Third World -- Bibliography -- Index
  • 81 The Race for Theory -- Part XIV Production and Consumption -- Introduction -- 82 The Historiography of African Literature Written in English -- 83 Singapore: Poet, Critic, Audience -- 84 Postcolonial Culture, Postimperial Criticism -- 85 The Book Today in Africa -- 86 Literary Colonialism: Books in the Third World -- Bibliography -- Index
  • 40 The Representation of the Indigene -- 41 The Myth of Authenticity -- 42 Who Can Write as Other? -- Part VIII Feminism and Post-colonialism -- Introduction -- 43 First Things First -- 44 Decolonizing Culture: Toward a Theory for Post-colonial Women's Texts -- 45 Under Western Eyes: Feminst Scholarship and Colonial Discourses -- 46 Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism -- 47 Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism -- 48 Woman Skin Deep: Feminst and the Postcolonial Condition -- Part IX Language -- Introduction -- 49 The Language of African Literature -- 50 The Alchemy of English -- 51 Language and Spirit -- 52 Constitutive Graphonomy -- 53 New Language, New World -- 54 Nation Language -- 55 Relexification -- Part X The Body and Performance -- Introduction -- 56 The Fact of Blackness -- 57 Jazz and the West Indian Novel -- 58 In Search of the Lost Body: Redefining the Subject in Caribbean Literature -- 59 The Body as Cultural Signifier -- 60 Dance, Movement and Resistance Politics -- 61 Feminism and the Colonial Body -- 62 Outlaws of the Text -- Part XI History -- Introduction -- 63 Allegories of Atlas -- 64 Columbus and the Cannibals -- 65 The Muse of History -- 66 Spatial History -- 67 The Limbo Gateway -- 68 Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History -- Part XII Place -- Introduction -- 69 Unhiding the Hidden -- 70 Writing in Colonial Space -- 71 Naming Place -- 72 Decolonizing the Map -- 73 Aboriginal Place -- 74 Ecological Imperialism -- Part XIII Education -- Introduction -- 75 Minute on Indian Education -- 76 The Beginnings of English Literary Study in British India -- 77 On the Abolition of the English Department -- 78 The Neocolonial Assumption in University Teaching of English -- 79 Ideology in the Classroom: A Case Study in the Teaching of English Literature in Canadian Universities -- 80 Education and Neocolonialism
  • Intro -- Title page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction -- Part I Issues and Debates -- Introduction -- 1 The Occasion for Speaking -- 2 The Economy of Manichean Allegory -- 3 Can the Subaltern Speak? -- 4 Signs Taken for Wonders -- 5 Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse -- 6 The Scramble for Post-colonialism -- Part II Universality and Difference -- Introduction -- 7 Colonialist Criticism -- 8 Heroic Ethnocentrism -- 9 Entering Our Own Ignorance -- 10 Western Mathematics -- 11 Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the 'National Allegory' -- Part III Representation and Resistance -- Introduction -- 12 Orientalism -- 13 A Small Place -- 14 Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse -- 15 Figures of Colonial Resistance -- 16 Unsettling the Empire -- 17 The Rhetoric of English India -- Part IV Postmodernism and Post-colonialism -- Introduction -- 18 The Postcolonial and the Postmodern -- 19 Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today -- 20 Circling the Downspout of Empire -- 21 The White Inuit Speaks: Contamination as Literary Strategy -- 22 The Politics of the Possible -- Part V Nationalism -- Introduction -- 23 National Culture -- 24 Fanon, Cabral and Ngugi on National Liberation -- 25 Nationalism as a Problem -- 26 The Discovery of Nationality in Australian and Canadian Literatures -- 27 The National Longing for Form -- 28 Dissemination -- 29 What Ish My Nation? -- Part VI Hybridity -- Introduction -- 30 Fossil and Psyche -- 31 Named for Victoria, Queen of England -- 32 Of the Marvellous Realism of the Haitians -- 33 Marvellous Realism -- 34 Creolization in Jamaica -- 35 Cultural Diversity and Cultural Differences -- Part VII Ethnicity and Indigeneity -- Introduction -- 36 No Master Territories -- 37 Who is Ethnic? -- 38 New Ethnicities -- 39 White Forms, Aboriginal Content