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Postcolonialisms An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism

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ISBN-10: 0813535522

ISBN-13: 9780813535524

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gaurav Desai, Supriya Nair

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List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 5/24/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.39" tall
Weight: 2.552
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ideologies of Imperialism
"The Letter of Christopher Columbus on the Discovery of America"
"Speech in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings"
"The Value of British Rule in the Tropics to British Democracy and the Native Races"
The Critique of Colonial Discourse
"Romanus Pontifex (1454) and the Expansion of Europe"
From Discourse on Colonialism
"Caliban: Notes towards a Discussion of Culture in Our America"
"Introduction" to Orientalism
"Imperialism, History, Writing, and Theory"
The Politics of Language and Literary Studies
"Minute on Indian Education, February 2, 1835"
"The English Language in Liberia"
"The Language of African Literature"
"Writing Oral History: Sistren Theatre Collective's Lionheart Gal"
Nationalisms and Nativisms
"Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century"
"The African Novel and Its Critics (1950-1975)"
"On National Culture"
"The Tyrannies of Unanimism"
Hybrid Identities
"The Threat of Abandonment"
"The Caribbean: Culture or Mimicry?"
"Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse"
"In Praise of Creoleness"
"How (!) Is an Indian?: A Contest of Stories"
Genders and Sexualities
"The Discourse of the Veil"
"Colonizing Bodies and Minds: Gender and Colonialism"
"Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism"
"'Bullers' and 'Battymen': Contesting Homophobia in Black Popular Culture and Contemporary Caribbean Literature"
Reading the Subaltern
"On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India"
"Outside History: Irish New Histories and the 'Subalternity Effect'"
"Our Rigoberta? I, Rigoberta Menchu, Cultural Authority, and the Problem of Subaltern Agency"
"The Primitivist and the Postcolonial"
Comparative (Post)colonialisms
"Apology Bill: Public Law 103-150"
"Manifest Domesticity"
"When Does a Settler Become a Native?: Citizenship and Identity in a Settler Society"
"Is the Post- in Postcolonial the Post- in Post-Soviet?: Toward a Global Postcolonial Critique"
Globalization and Postcoloniality
"Thinking the Diaspora: Home-Thoughts from Abroad"
"The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism"
"Against the Lures of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women, and Intellectual Hegemony"
"Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality"
Alternative Arrangements for Postcolonialisms
Sources and Permissions
Index