A Companion to Postcolonial Studies

List of Contributors ixForeword: Upon Reading the Companion to Postcolonial Studies xv
Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakAcknowledgments xxiiiMission Impossible: Introducing Postcolonial Studies in the US Academy 1
Henry SchwarzPart I: Historical and Theoretical Issues 211 Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 23
Neil Larsen2 Postcolonial Feminism/Postcolonialism and Feminism 53
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and You-me Park3 Heterogeneity and Hybridity: Colonial Legacy, Postcolonial Heresy 72
David Theo Goldberg4 Postcolonialism and Postmodernism 87
Ato Quayson5 Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism 112
Jenny Sharpe6 Global Capital and Transnationalism 126
Crystal BartolovichPart II: The Local and the Global 1637 A Vindication of Double Consciousness 165
Doris Sommer8 Human Understanding and (Latin) American Interests - The Politics and Sensibilities of Geohistorical Locations 180
Walter D. Mignolo9 US Imperialism: Global Dominance without Colonies 203
Donald E. Pease10 Indigenousness and Indigeneity 221
Jace Weaver11 Creolization, Orality, and Nation Language in the Caribbean 236
Supriya Nair12 "Middle-class" Consciousness and Patriotic Literature in South Asia 252
Sumit Sarkar13 Africa: Varied Colonial Legacies 269
Tejumola Olaniyan14 The "Middle East"? Or . . . /Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial Predicament 282
Magda M. Al-Nowaihi15 King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the "Handover" from the USA 304
Rey Chow16 Japan and East Asia 319
Sandra Buckley17 Intellectuals, Theosophy, and Failed Narratives of the Nation in Late Colonial Java 333
Laurie J. Sears18 Settler Colonies 360
Anna Johnston and Alan Lawson19 Ireland After History 377
David Lloyd20 Global Disjunctures, Diasporic Differences, and the New World (Dis-)Order 396
Ali Behdad21 Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender 410
Geeta PatelPart III: The Inventiveness of Theory 42922 Humanism in Question: Fanon and Said 431
Anthony C. Alessandrini23 Spivak and Bhabha 451
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Henry Schwarz is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University, He is author of Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India (1997) and co-editor of Reading the Shape of the World: Toward an International Cultural Studies (1996) and Contributions to Bengal Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Approach (1998). He has published in literary theory, cultural studies, Indian literature, and English imperialism. He is currently US Regional Editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Sangeeta Ray is currently the Director of the Asian American Studies program at the University of Maryland as well as Associate Professor in the English Department. She has published extensively on feminist postcolonial issues. She is author of En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives (1999).

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