The Postcolonial Studies Reader

Covering more debates, topics and critics than any comparable book in its field The Post Colonial Studies Reader provides the ideal starting point for students and issues a potent challenge to the ways in which we think and write about literature and culture.

The most comprehensive collection of postcolonial writing theory and criticism, this third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 125 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 globalisation. As in the first two editions, this new edition of The Postcolonial Studies Reader ranges as widely as possible to reflect the remarkable diversity of work in the discipline and the vibrancy of anti-imperialist and decolonising writing both within and without the metropolitan centres.

This volume includes new work in the field over the decade and a half since the second edition was published. Covering more debates, topics and critics than any comparable book in its field The Postcolonial Studies Reader provides the ideal starting point for students and issues a potent challenge to the ways in which we think and write about literature and culture.

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Bill Ashcroft is Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales. He is a renowned critic and theorist, founding exponent of postcolonial theory, and author of 21 books and over 200 articles and chapters. Co-editor of The Postcolonial Studies Reader, he is also co-author of The Empire Writes Back, the first text to offer a systematic examination of the field of postcolonial studies.

Gareth Griffiths is Emeritus Professor at the University of Western Australia. He has published widely in the field of postcolonial literatures and literary theory. Co-editor of The Postcolonial Studies Reader, he is also co-author of The Empire Writes Back, the first text to offer a systematic examination of the field of postcolonial studies. He has published many books and over 70 articles and chapters on literary and cultural topics with an emphasis on postcolonial writing and culture.

Helen Tiffin is Adjunct Professor at the University of Wollongong. Co-editor of The Postcolonial Studies Reader, she is also co-author of The Empire Writes Back, the first text to offer a systematic examination of the field of postcolonial studies. She has authored or edited eight books and over 80 articles and chapters on postcolonial literatures, literary theory, and animal and environmental subjects.

Inhalt

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

General Introduction

Introduction to the Second Edition

Introduction to the Third Edition

PART I: Origins

Introduction

1. Thomas Macaulay

Minute on Indian Education

2. Raja Rao

Language and Spirit

3. George Lamming

The Occasion for Speaking

4. Edward W. Said

Orientalism

5. Ato Quayson

Introduction: Postcolonial Literature in a Changing Historical Frame

PART II: Issues and Debates

Introduction

6. Gayatri Spivak

Can the Subaltern Speak?

7. Homi K. Bhabha

Signs Taken for Wonders

8. Achille Mbembe and Libby Meintjes

Necropolitics

9. Ann Laura Stoler

On Degrees of Imperial Sovereignty

10. Christopher Taylor

Postcolonial Studies and the Specter of Misplaced Polemics against Postcolonial Theory: A Review of the Chibber Debate

11. Bill Ashcroft

Including China: Bei Dao, Resistance and the Imperial State

Part III: Representation and Resistance

Introduction ****

12. Ken Saro-Wiwa

Trial Statement

13. Helen Tiffin

Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse

14. Ranajit Guha

Subaltern Studies: Projects for Our Time and Their Convergence

15. María do Mar Castro Varela and Carolina Tamayo Rojas

Epistemicide, Postcolonial Resistance and the State

16. Anna Bernard

Cultural Activism as Resource: Pedagogies of Resistance and Solidarity

17. Nobukhosi Ngwenya and Bettina von Lieres

Silent Citizens and Resistant Texts: Reading Hidden Narratives

PART IV: Nationalism

Introduction

18. Frantz Fanon

On National Culture

19. Partha Chatterjee

Nationalism as a Problem

20. Homi K. Bhabha

Dissemination: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation

21. Timothy Brennan

The National Longing for Form

22. David Cairns and Shaun Richards

What Ish My Nation?

23. Ephraim Nimni

Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Self-Determination: A Paradigm Shift

PART V: Hybridity

Introduction

24. Edward Kamu Braithwaite

Creolization in Jamaica

25. Michael Dash

Marvellous Realism: The Way Out of Négritude

26. Homi K. Bhabha

Cultural Diversity and Cultural Differences

27. Robert Young

The Cultural Politics of Hybridity

28. Anjali Prabhu

Interrogating Hybridity

29. Deepika Bahri

Hybridity, Redux

Part VI: Indigeneity

Introduction

30. Gareth Griffiths

The Myth of Authenticity

31. Margery Fee

Who Can Write as Other?

32. Diana Brydon

Contamination as Literary Strategy

33. James Clifford

Indigenous Articulations

34. Paul Sharrad

Indigenous Transnational

35. Geoff Rodoreda

The Mabo Turn

Part VII: Race and Ethnicity

Introduction

36. Henty Louis Gates

Writing Race

37. Kwame Anthony Appiah

The Illusions of Race

38. Stuart Hall

New Ethnicities

39. Philip Gleason

Identifying Identity

40. Howard Winant

Race, Ethnicity and Social Science

41. Julian Go

Postcolonial Possibilities for the Sociology of Race

Part VIII: Whiteness

Introduction

42. Frantz Fanon

The Fact of Blackness

43. Paul Gilroy

Ain't No Black in the Union Jack

44. Richard Dyer

White

45. Toni Morrison

When Whiteness Became Ideology

46. AnnLouise Keating

Interrogating Whiteness

47. Anne Brewster

Critical Whiteness Studies

48. Mike Hill

Whiteness, Writing, and Other Ordinary Terrors

Part IX: Gender, Sexuality and Identity

Introduction

49. Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses

50. Kirsten Holst Petersen

First Things First: Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature

51. Ketu H. Katrak

Decolonizing Culture: Toward a Theory for Post-Colonial Women's Texts

52. Sara Suleri

Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition

53. Oyerónké Oyewumí

Colonizing Bodies and Minds

54. Golnaz Golnaraghi and Kelly Dye

Discourses of Contradiction: A Postcolonial Analysis of Muslim Women and the Veil

55. Chantal Zabus and Samir Kumar Das

Hijras, Sangomas, and Their Translects: Trans(lat)ing India and South Africa

Part X: Language

Introduction

56. Ng g wa Thiong'o

The Language of African Literature

57. Chinua Achebe

The Politics of Language

58. Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Nation Language

59. Braj B. Kachru

The Alchemy of English

60. Bill Ashcroft

Language and Transformation

61. Nicholas G. Faraclas and Sally J. Delgado

Post-Colonial Linguistics and Post-Creole Creolistics

Part XI: Performance

Introduction

62. Reina Lewis

On Veiling, Vision and Voyage

63. Daniel L. Selden

'Our Films, their Films': Postcolonial Critique of the Cinematic Apparatus

64. Eugene Williams

"The Anancy Technique", A Gateway to Postcolonial Performance

65. Aparna Dharwadker

The Really Poor Theatre: Postcolonial Economies of Performance

66. Gareth Griffiths

"Pictures on the Wall, Music in the Air": Popular Culture Forms, Human Rights Agitation and Fiction in Africa

67. Helen Gilbert

Indigenous Festivals in the Pacific: Cultural Renewal, Decolonization and Nation-Building

Part XII: History

Introduction ****

68. Wilson Harris

The Limbo Gateway

69. Peter Hulme

Columbus and the Cannibals

70. Dipesh Chakrabarty

Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History

71. Ashish Nandy

History's Forgotten Doubles

72. Ato Quayson

The Sighs of History: Postcolonial Debris and the Question of (Literary) History

73. Laura Doyle …