

Beschreibung
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....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.
Autorentext
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
Minute on Indian Education
Language and Spirit
The Occasion for Speaking
Orientalism
Introduction: Postcolonial Literature in a Changing Historical Frame
PART II: Issues and Debates
Introduction
Can the Subaltern Speak?
Signs Taken for Wonders
Necropolitics
On Degrees of Imperial Sovereignty
Postcolonial Studies and the Specter of Misplaced Polemics against Postcolonial Theory: A Review of the Chibber Debate
Including China: Bei Dao, Resistance and the Imperial State
Part III: Representation and Resistance
Introduction ****
Trial Statement
Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse
Subaltern Studies: Projects for Our Time and Their Convergence
Epistemicide, Postcolonial Resistance and the State
Cultural Activism as Resource: Pedagogies of Resistance and Solidarity
Silent Citizens and Resistant Texts: Reading Hidden Narratives
PART IV: Nationalism
Introduction
On National Culture
Nationalism as a Problem
Dissemination: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation
The National Longing for Form
What Ish My Nation?
Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Self-Determination: A Paradigm Shift
PART V: Hybridity
Introduction
Creolization in Jamaica
Marvellous Realism: The Way Out of Négritude
Cultural Diversity and Cultural Differences
The Cultural Politics of Hybridity
Interrogating Hybridity
Hybridity, Redux
Part VI: Indigeneity
Introduction
The Myth of Authenticity
Who Can Write as Other?
Contamination as Literary Strategy
Indigenous Articulations
Indigenous Transnational
The Mabo Turn
Part VII: Race and Ethnicity
Introduction
Writing Race
The Illusions of Race
New Ethnicities
Identifying Identity
Race, Ethnicity and Social Science
Postcolonial Possibilities for the Sociology of Race
Part VIII: Whiteness
Introduction
The Fact of Blackness
Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
White
When Whiteness Became Ideology
Interrogating Whiteness
Critical Whiteness Studies
Whiteness, Writing, and Other Ordinary Terrors
Part IX: Gender, Sexuality and Identity
Introduction
Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses
First Things First: Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature
Decolonizing Culture: Toward a Theory for Post-Colonial Women's Texts
Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition
Colonizing Bodies and Minds
Discourses of Contradiction: A Postcolonial Analysis of Muslim Women and the Veil
Hijras, Sangomas, and Their Translects: Trans(lat)ing India and South Africa
Part X: Language
Introduction
The Language of African Literature
The Politics of Language
Nation Language
The Alchemy of English
Language and Transformation
Post-Colonial Linguistics and Post-Creole Creolistics
Part XI: Performance
Introduction
On Veiling, Vision and Voyage
'Our Films, their Films': Postcolonial Critique of the Cinematic Apparatus
"The Anancy Technique", A Gateway to Postcolonial Performance
The Really Poor Theatre: Postcolonial Economies of Performance
"Pictures on the Wall, Music in the Air": Popular Culture Forms, Human Rights Agitation and Fiction in Africa
Indigenous Festivals in the Pacific: Cultural Renewal, Decolonization and Nation-Building
Part XII: History
Introduction ****
The Limbo Gateway
Columbus and the Cannibals
Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History
History's Forgotten Doubles
The Sighs of History: Postcolonial Debris and the Question of (Literary) History