Description
This popular text provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The readings are drawn from a diverse selection of thinkers both historical and contemporary.
Table of Contents
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: An Introduction; Part One Theorising Colonised Cultures and Anti-Colonial Resistance; Chapter 1 Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century, Léopold Sédar Senghor; Chapter 2 On National Culture, Frantz Fanon; Chapter 3 National Liberation and Culture, Amilcar Cabral; Chapter 4 Can the Subaltern Speak?, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Chapter 5 Remembering Fanon: Self, Psyche and the Colonial Condition, Homi Bhabha; Part Two Theorising the West; Chapter 6 From Orientalism, Edward Said; Chapter 7 Orientalism and its Problems, Dennis Porter; Chapter 8 Orientalism and After, Aijaz Ahmad; Chapter 9 From Discourse on Colonialism, Aimé Césaire; Chapter 10 From The Consequences of Modernity, Anthony Giddens; Part Three Theorising Gender; Chapter 11 Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses, Chandra Talpade Mohanty; Chapter 12 The Unspeakable Limits of Rape: Colonial Violence and Counter-Insurgency, Jenny Sharpe; Chapter 13 Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition, Sara Suleri; Chapter 14 Speaking in Tongues: Dialogics, Dialectics and the Black Woman Writer’s Literary Tradition, Mae Gwendolyn Henderson; Part Four Theorising Post-Coloniality: Intellectuals and Institutions; Chapter 15 What is Post(-)colonialism?, Vijay Mishra, Bob Hodge; Chapter 16 The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term ‘Post-colonialism’, Anne McClintock; Chapter 17 Overworlding the ‘Third World’, Ania Loomba; Chapter 18 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy, Arjun Appadurai; Chapter 19 Towards a Critical Theory of Third World Films, Teshome H. Gabriel; Chapter 20 Beyond Ethnocentrism: Gender, Power and the Third- World Intelligentsia, Jean Franco; Part Five Theorising Post-Coloniality: Discourse and Identity; Chapter 21 Identity and its Discontents: Women and the Nation, Deniz Kandiyoti; Chapter 22 Cultural Identity and Diaspora, Stuart Hall; Chapter 23 Urban Social Movements, ‘Race’ and Community, Paul Gilroy; Chapter 24 Postmodern Blackness, bell hooks; Chapter 25 The African Writer and the English Language, Chinua Achebe; Chapter 26 The Language of African Literature, Ng?g? wa Thiong’o; Part Six Reading from Theory; Chapter 27 The Construction of Woman in Three Popular Texts of Empire: Towards a Critique of Materialist Feminism, Rosemary Hennessy, Rajeswari Mohan; Chapter 28 Kim and Orientalism, Patrick Williams; Chapter 29 The Imperial Unconscious? Representations of Imperial Discourse, Laura Chrisman; Chapter 30 Xala, Ousmane Sembene 1976: The Carapace That Failed, Laura Mulvey; Chapter 31 The Empire Renarrated: Season of Migration to the North and the Reinvention of the Present, Saree S. Makdisi;
