Colonial discourse and post-colonial theory : a reader

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Colonial discourse and post-colonial theory : a reader / edited and introduced by Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman.

Williams, Patrick, 1951- (editor.). Chrisman, Laura, (editor.).

Summary:

Equally suitable for undergraduates and specialists in the humanities, this collection provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The readings are drawn from a diverse selection of Third World and Western thinkers, both historical and contemporary. "Post-colonialism" is taken by the editors to include Third World and diasporic experience; like "colonialism," it is understood to contain a complex set of cultural, ethnographic, political, and economic processes and conflicts. This volume explores such issues as the nature of colonized cultures and anti-colonial resistance; subaltern historiography; constructions of Western subjectivity, knowledge, and gender; the formation of post-colonial intellectuals; the metropolitan institutionalization of post-colonialism; neo-colonialism; and the nature of minority and post-colonial identity and discourse. One section is devoted to the application of theoretical formulations to cultural criticism, and contains a number of textual analyses. A general introduction to the volume as well as introductions to each section provide historical, theoretical, and political contexts for the readings. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography. -- Amazon.com.

Record details

ISBN: 0231100205
ISBN: 9780231100205
ISBN: 0231100213
ISBN: 9780231100212
Physical Description: xii, 570 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [1994]
Copyright: ©1994

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-561) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Negritude : a humanism of the twentieth century / Léopold Sédar Senghor -- On national culture / Frantz Fanon -- National liberation and culture / Amilcar Cabral -- Can the subaltern speak? / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Remembering Fanon : self, psyche and the colonial condition / Homi Bhabha -- from Orientalism / Edward Said -- Orientalism and its problems / Dennis Porter -- Orientalism and after / Aijaz Ahmad -- from Discourse on colonialism / Aimé Césaire -- from The consequences of modernity / Anthony Giddens -- Under Western eyes : feminist scholarship and colonial discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- The unspeakable limits of rape : colonial violence and counter-insurgency / Jenny Sharpe -- Woman skin deep : feminism and the postcolonial condition / Sara Suleri -- Speaking in tongues : dialogics, dialectics and the Black woman writer's literary tradition / Mae Gwendolyn Henderson -- What is post( -- )colonialism? / Vijay Mishra and Bob Hodge -- The angel of progress : pitfalls of the term 'post-colonialism' / Anne McClintock -- Overworlding the 'third world' / Ania Loomba -- Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy / Arjun Appadurai -- Towards a critical theory of third world films / Teshome H. Gabriel -- Beyond ethnocentrism : gender, power and the third-world intelligentsia / Jean Franco -- Identity and its discontents : women and the nation / Deniz Kandiyoti -- Cultural identity and diaspora / Stuart Hall -- Urban social movements, 'race' and community / Paul Gilroy -- Postmodern blackness / bell hooks -- The African writer and the English language / Chinua Achebe -- The language of African literature / Ngũgĩ Thiongʼo -- The construction of woman in three popular texts of empire : towards a critique of materialist feminism / Rosemary Hennessy and Rajeswari Mohan -- Kim and Orientalism / Patrick Williams -- The imperial unconscious? : representations of imperial discourse / Laura Chrisman -- Xala, Ousmane Sembene 1976 : the carapace that failed / Laura Mulvey -- The empire renarrated : Season of migration to the north and the reinvention of the present / Saree S. Makdisi.