Postcolonial Studies and Beyond

Published by Duke University Press 2005

Postcolonial Studies and Beyond

Edited by: Ania Loomba , Suvir Kaul , Matti Bunzl , Antoinette Burton and Jed Esty

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822386650

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About this book

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

Author / Editor information

Ania Loomba is Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Suvir Kaul is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Matti Bunzl is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Antoinette Burton is Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, Department of History, University of Illinois.

Jed Esty is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Reviews

“Postcolonial Studies and Beyond will have a place in reviewing and defining the development of postcolonial studies similar to that which Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture had for cultural studies.”—David Lloyd, coeditor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital

“What truly distinguishes this volume is its attempt to find for postcolonial studies a real critical vocation at a time when the issue of Empire is once again a global subject of debate. Rich in scholarship and in the diversity of views represented here, this book will help renew the questions it addresses.”—Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Beyond What? An Introduction Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton and Jed Esty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1 Globalization and the Postcolonial Eclipse
Beyond the Straits: Postcolonial Allegories of the Globe Peter Hulme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
On Globalization, Again! Ali Behdad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
The Ruins of Empire: The National and Global Politics of America’s Return to Rome Vilashini Cooppan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery Timothy Brennan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Part 2 Neoliberalism and the Postcolonial World
The End of History, Again? Pursuing the Past in the Postcolony Jean Comaroff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
A Flight from Freedom Elizabeth A. Povinelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development James Ferguson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
‘‘The Deep Thoughts the One in Need Falls Into’’: Quotidian Experience and the Perspectives of Poetry in Postliberation South Africa Kelwyn Sole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Between the Burqa and the Beauty Parlor? Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, and Feminist Politics Nivedita Menon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
part 3 Beyond the Nation-State (and Back Again)
Environmentalism and Postcolonialism Rob Nixon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Beyond Black Atlantic and Postcolonial Studies: The South African Differences of Sol Plaatje and Peter Abrahams Laura Chrisman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
Pathways to Postcolonial Nationhood: The Democratization of Difference in Contemporary Latin America Florencia E. Mallon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
Traveling Multiculturalism: A Trinational Debate in Translation Robert Stam and Ella Shohat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
The Ballad of the Sad Café: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the Post/colonial Question Rebecca L. Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Part 4 Postcolonial Studies and the Disciplines in Transformation
Hybridity and Heresy: Apartheid Comparative Religion in Late Antiquity Daniel Boyarin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
EugenicWoman, Semicolonialism, and Colonial Modernity as Problems for Postcolonial Theory Tani E. Barlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
The Social Construction of Postcolonial Studies David Scott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History Frederick Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
The Politics of Postcolonial Modernism Neil Lazarus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 512
Illustrations
- Other: 5 b&w photos, 2 figures

eBook

Published: June 10, 2005
ISBN: 9780822386650