Contemporary Postcolonial Theory

ISBN-13: 9780367717797 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 416 str.

Padmini Mongia

Opis

There is a crisis in contemporary postcolonial theory: while an enormous body of challenging research has been produced under its auspices, severely critical questions about the validity and usefulness of this theory have also been raised.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART ONE: SHIFTING TERRAINS, 1. From Orientalism, 2. The Other Question, 3. Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?, 4. Unsettling the Empire: Resistance Theory for the Second World, 5. Resistance Theory/Theorizing Resistance, or Two Cheers for Nativism, 6. Cultural Identity and Diaspora, 7. Where Have All the Natives Gone?, PART TWO: DISCIPLINING KNOWLEDGE, 8. The Race for Theory, 9. The Nature of Things: Arrested Decolonization and Critical Theory, 10. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses, 11. Poststructuralism, Marginality, Postcoloniality and Value, 12. Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for "Indian" Pasts?, 13. "The Whisper Wakes, the Shudder Plays": "Race," Nation and Ethnic Absolutism, PART THREE: LOCATING PRACTICE, 14. The Politics of Literary Postcoloniality, 15. The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism, 16. Notes on the Post-Colonial, 17. Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition, 18. Crosscurrents, Crosstalk: Race, "Postcoloniality" and the Politics of Location, 19. Rehearsals of Liberation: Contemporary Postcolonial Discourse and the New South Africa, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Mongia, Padmini