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Postcolonial Studies and Beyond

Postcolonial Studies and Beyond

  • Author: Loomba, Ania; Kaul, Suvir; Bunzl, Matti; Burton, Antoinette; Esty, Jed
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822335115
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822386650
  • Place of publication:  Durham , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2005
  • Month: June
  • Pages: 512
  • DDC: 325/.3
  • Language: English
An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to map out a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this volume assesses the current state of the field and points toward its most promising new developments. In addressing questions about the definition and relevance of postcolonial scholarship, many of the essays consider its relation to the study of globalization. While some contributors offer broad reflections on the existing two-way influence between postcolonial theory and established university disciplines such as literary criticism and history, others forge ahead into some vital, if nascent, areas for postcolonial research such as media studies, environmental studies, religious studies, and linguistic and semantic analysis.

The contributors represent many of the fields altered by postcolonial studies over the past two decades, including literary studies, history, anthropology, Asian and African studies, and political science. They model diverse applications of postcolonial theory to Latin America, East Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. Postcolonial Studies and Beyond propels the field forward. It showcases scholars coming from intellectual precincts usually considered outside the purview of the postcolonial finding new ways to deploy classic techniques of postcolonial analysis, and scholars strongly associated with postcolonial studies offering substantial critiques designed to challenge the field’s most fundamental assumptions.

Contributors. Tani E. Barlow, Ali Behdad, Daniel Boyarin, Timothy Brennan, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, Laura Chrisman, Jean Comaroff, Frederick Cooper, Vilashini Cooppan, Jed Esty, James Ferguson, Peter Hulme, Suvir Kaul, Neil Lazarus, Ania Loomba, Florencia E. Mallon, Nivedita Menon, Rob Nixon, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, David Scott, Ella Shohat, Kelwyn Sole, Robert Stam, Rebecca L. Stein

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Beyond What? An Introduction - Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton,and Jed Esty
  • Part 1. Globalization and the Postcolonial Eclipse
    • Beyond the Straits: Postcolonial Allegories of the Globe - Peter Hulme
    • On Globalization, Again! - Ali Behdad
    • The Ruins of Empire: The National and Global Politics of America’s Return to Rome - Vilashini Cooppan
    • The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery - Timothy Brennan
  • Part 2. Neoliberalism and the Postcolonial World
    • The End of History, Again? Pursuing the Past in the Postcolony - Jean Comaroff
    • A Flight from Freedom - Elizabeth A. Povinelli
    • Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development - James Ferguson
    • ‘‘The Deep Thoughts the One in Need Falls Into’’: Quotidian Experience and the Perspectives of Poetry in Postliberation South Africa - Kelwyn Sole
    • Between the Burqa and the Beauty Parlor? Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, and Feminist Politics - Nivedita Menon
  • Part 3. Beyond the Nation-State (and Back Again)
    • Environmentalism and Postcolonialism - Rob Nixon
    • Beyond Black Atlantic and Postcolonial Studies: The South African Differences of Sol Plaatje and Peter Abrahams - Laura Chrisman
    • Pathways to Postcolonial Nationhood: The Democratization of Difference in Contemporary Latin America - Florencia E. Mallon
    • Traveling Multiculturalism: A Trinational Debate in Translation - Robert Stam and Ella Shohat
    • The Ballad of the Sad Café: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the Post/colonial Question - Rebecca L. Stein
  • Part 4. Postcolonial Studies and the Disciplines in Transformation
    • Hybridity and Heresy: Apartheid Comparative Religion in Late Antiquity - Daniel Boyarin
    • Eugenic Woman, Semicolonialism, and Colonial Modernity as Problems for Postcolonial Theory - Tani E. Barlow
    • The Social Construction of Postcolonial Studies - David Scott
    • Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History - Frederick Cooper
    • The Politics of Postcolonial Modernism - Neil Lazarus
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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