Schwarz H., Ray S. (eds.) A Companion to Postcolonial Studies

Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2005. — 636 p. — (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies) — ISBN: 0-631-20663-9This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947. Ranges widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study. Presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia. Provides clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European colonization. Features introductory essays on the major thinkers and intellectual schools that have informed strategies of national liberation worldwide. Offers an incisive summary of the long history and theory of modern European colonization in local detail and global scale.Mission impossible: introducing postcolonial studies in the US Academy / Henry Schwarz
Imperialism, colonialism, postcolonialism / Neil Larsen
Postcolonial feminism/postcolonialism and feminism / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and You-me Park
Heterogeneity and hybridity: colonial legacy, postcolonial heresy / David Theo Goldberg
Postcolonialism and postmodernism / Ato Quayson
Postcolonial studies in the house of US multiculturalism / Jenny Sharpe
Global capital and transnationalism / Crystal Bartolovich
A vindication of double consciousness / Doris Sommer
Human understanding and (Latin) American interests: the politics and sensibilities of geohistorical locations / Walter D. Mignolo
US imperialism: global dominance without colonies / Donald E. Pease
Indigenousness and indigeneity / Jace Weaver
Creolization, orality, and nation language in the Caribbean / Supriya Nair
Middle-class consciousness and patriotic literature in South Asia / Sumit Sarkar
Africa: varied colonial legacies / Tejumola Olaniyan
The "Middle East"? Or... /Arabic literature and the postcolonial predicament / Magda M. Al-Nowaihi
King Kong in Hong Kong: watching the "handover" from the USA / Rey Chow
Japan and East Asia / Sandra Buckley
Intellectuals, theosophy, and failed narratives of the nation in late colonial Java / Laurie J. Sears
Settler colonies / Anna Johnston and Alan Lawson
Ireland after history / David Lloyd
Global disjunctures, diasporic differences, and the new world (dis- )order / Ali Behdad
Home, homo, hybrid: translating gender / Geeta Patel
Humanism in question: Fanon and Said / Anthony C. Alessandrini
Spivak and Bhabha / Bart Moore-Gilbert
A small history of subaltern studies / Dipesh Chakrabarty
Feminist theory in perspective / Ipshita Chanda
Global gay formations and local homosexualities / Katie King
Rethinking English: postcolonial English studies / Gaurav Desai
Postcolonial legality / Upendra Baxi
Race, gender, class, postcolonialism: toward a new humanistic paradigm? / Bruce Robbins
Postscript: popular perceptions of postcolonial studies after 9/11 / Sangeeta Ray