The Postcolonial Studies Reader

by Bill Ashcroft (Editor), Gareth Griffiths (Editor), Helen Tiffin (Editor)

Overview

The Post Colonial Studies Reader ranges as widely as possible to reflect the remarkable diversity of work in the discipline and the vibrancy of anti-imperialist and decolonizing writing both within and without the metropolitan centres.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032747057
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/11/2024
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	846
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bill Ashcroft is Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales. He is a renowned critic and theorist, founding exponent of post-colonial theory, and author of 21 books and over 200 articles and chapters. Co-editor of The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, 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 post-colonial literatures and literary theory Co-editor of The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, 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 seventy articles and chapters on literary and cultural topics with an emphasis on post-colonial writing and culture..

Helen Tiffin is Adjunct Professor at the University of Wollongong. Co-editor of The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, 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 eighty articles and chapters on post-colonial literatures, literary theory, and animal and environmental subjects.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

General Introduction

Introduction to the Second Edition

Introduction to the Third Edition

 

PART I: Origins

Introduction to Part I

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 to Part II

6. Gayatri Spivak

Can the Subaltern Speak?

7. Homi K. Bhabha

Signs Taken for Wonders

8. Achille Mbembe

Translated by 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. Including China: Bei Dao, Resistance and the Imperial State

Bill Ashcroft

 

Part III: Representation and Resistance

Introduction to Part III

 

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 to Part IV

 

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 to Part V

 

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 to Part VI

 

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 to Part VII

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. Postcolonial Possibilities for the Sociology of Race

Julian Go

 

Part VIII: Whiteness

Introduction to Part VIII

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 to Part IX

 

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 to Part X

56. Ngũgĩ 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 to Part XI

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 to Part XII

 

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

Inter-Imperiality: Dialectics in a Postcolonial World History

 

PART XIII: Place

Introduction to Part XIII

74. José Rabasa

Allegories of Atlas

75. Graham Huggan

Decolonizing the Map

76. Paul A. Carter

Naming Place

77. G. Malcolm Lewis

Indigenous Map Making

78. Bill Ashcroft

Urbanism, Mobility and Bombay: Reading the Postcolonial City

79. Gareth Griffiths

Postcolonialism and Travel Writing

 

Part XIV: Production and Consumption

Introduction to Part XIV

 

80. ARJUN APPADURAI

Commodities and the Politics of Value

81. Anne McClintock

Soft-Soaping Empire

82. Graham Huggan

Re-evaluating the Postcolonial Exotic

83. Sarah Brouillet

Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace

84. Paula Morris

‘The Leftovers of Empire’: Commonwealth writers and the Booker Prize

85. Hayley G. Toth

Reading in the Global Literary Marketplace

 

Part XV: Diaspora, Refugees and Migration

Introduction to Part XV

86. Stuart Hall

Cultural Identity and Diaspora

87. Avtah Brah

Thinking through the Concept of Diaspora

88. Ahmed Gamal

The Global and the Postcolonial in Post-Migratory Literature

89. Susan P. Mains, Mary Gilmartin, Declan Cullen, Robina Mohammad, Divya P. Tolia-Kelly, Parvati Raghuram and Jamie Winders

Postcolonial Migrations

90. Mike Phillips

Postcolonial Endgame

91. Claire Gallien

“Refugee Literature”: What postcolonial theory has to say

 

Part XVI: Globalization

Introduction to Part XVI

 

92. Roland Robertson

Glocalization

93. Arjun Apparudai

Disjunction and Difference

94. SIMON GIKANDI

Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality

95. Ina Kwerner

Postcolonial theories as global critical theories

96. Sankaran Krishna

Globalization and Postcolonialism: Hegemony and Resistance in the Twenty-First Century

 

Part XVII: Decoloniality

Introduction to Part XVII

97. Gurminder K. Bhambra

Postcolonial and Decolonial Dialogues

98. Aníbal Quijano

Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality

99. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Decoloniality as the Future of Africa

4. Ramón Grosfuguel

The Epistemic Decolonial Turn

100. Walter Mignolo

Coloniality Is Far from Over, and So Must Be Decoloniality

101. ‘Other’ Knowledges, ‘Other’ Critiques: Reflections on the Politics and Practices of Philosophy and Decoloniality in the ‘Other’ America

Catherine Walsh

 

Part XVIII: Environment and Climate

Introduction to Part XVIII

 

102. Alfred W. Crosby

Ecological Imperialism

103. Val Plumwood

Decolonizing Relationships with Nature

104. Arundhati Roy

The Greater Common Good

105. Russell McDougall, John C. Ryan and Pauline Reynolds

Climate Change as Critical Reading Practice

106. Rob Nixon

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

107. Dipesh Chakrabarty

The Human and The Anthropocene

 

Part XIX: Animals and Speciesism

Introduction to Part XX

108. Philip Armstrong

The Postcolonial Animal

109. Marjorie Spiegel

The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery

110. Erica Fudge

Animal

111. Helen Tiffin and Graham Huggan

Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment

112. J.M. Coetzee

The Lives of Animals

113. Freya Mathews

The Anguish of Wildlife Ethics

 

Part XX: Postcolonial Science

Introduction to Part XX

 

114. Alan J. Bishop

Western Mathematics: The Secret Weapon of Cultural Imperialism

115. Warwick Anderson and Vincanne Adams

Pramoedya’s Chickens: Postcolonial Studies of Technoscience

116. Derek Hook

A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial

117. Kapil Raj

Beyond Postcolonialism . . . and Postpositivism: Circulation and the Global History of Science

118. Suman Seth

Colonial History and Postcolonial Science Studies

119. Angela Willey

A World of Materialisms: Postcolonial Feminist Science Studies and the New Natural

 

 

Part XXI: Postcolonial Sacred

Introduction to Part XXI

 

120. GAURI VISWANATHAN

Conversion, ‘Tradition’ and National Consolidation

121. Laura E. Donaldson

God, Gold, and Gender

122. William Baldridge

Reclaiming Our Histories

123. Peter van der Veer

Global Conversions

124. Rosa Vasilaki

Between postcolonialism and radical historicism: The contested Muslim political subject

References

Index