Relocating Postcolonialism

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-631-20804-4
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 812 g

Relocating Postcolonialism is a major new collection that challenges many of the assumptions and discursive maneuvers of postcolonialism and assesses its relationship to other academic disciplines and fields of inquiry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldberg, David Theo

Quayson, Ato

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.

Introduction: Scale and Sensibility. (Ato Quayson and David Theo Goldberg).

1. In Conversation with Neeladri Bhattacharya, Suvir Kaul and Ania Loomba. (Edward Said).

2. Speaking of Postcoloniality, in the Continuous Present: A Conversation. (Homi Bhabha and John Comaroff).

3. Resident Alien? (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak).

4. Directions and Dead-ends in Postcolonial Studies. (Benita Parry).

5. Racial Rule. (David Theo Goldberg).

6. Racist Visions for the Twenty-first Century: On the Cultural Politics of the French Radical Right. (Ann Stoler).

7. Breaking the Silence and a Break with the Past: African Oral Histories and the Transformations of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Southern Ghana. (Anne Bailey).

8. Forgotten Like a Bad Dream: Atlantic Slavery and the Ethics of Postcolonial Memory. (Barnor Hesse).

9. Connectivity, and the Fate of the Unconnected. (Olu Oguibe).

10. Towards (Re)Conciliation: The Post-Colonial Economy of Giving. (Pal Ahluwalia).

11. The Economy of Ideas: Colonial Gift and Postcolonial Product. (Zane Ma-Rhea).

12. Looking Awry: Tropes of Disability in Postcolonial Writing. (Ato Quayson).

13. Theorizing Disability. (Rosemarie Garland Thomson).

14. Nature, History and the Failure of Language: The Problem of the Human in Postapartheid South Africa. (John Noyes).

15. Passing as Korean-American. (Wendy Ann Lee).

16. Myths of East and West: Intellectual Property Law in Postcolonial Hong Kong. (Eve Darian-Smith).

17. A Flexible Foundation: Constructing A Postcolonial Dialogue. (Dawn Duncan).

18. Linguists and Postcolonial Literature: Englishes in the Classroom. (Laura Wright and Jonathan Hope).

19. Post-Scriptum (Francois Verges).

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

David Theo Goldberg is Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine and Director of the system-wide University of California Humanities Research Institute. His books include The Racial State (2002), Race Critical Theories: Text and Context (2002, co-edited with Philomena Essed), and Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (1993).

Ato Quayson is Lecturer in the English Faculty, Director of the African Studies Centre, and Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing (1997), Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process (2000), and Calibrations: Reading for the Social (2002).