Relocating Postcolonialism

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).

"Taken together, the diverse contributions to this book represent a sustained attempt to bring postcolonial criticism into a dialogue with some of the most pressing and enduring issues of our times. I cannot think of any other book that helps us to see so clearly where postcolonial criticism is headed." Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago"This volume is a fine demonstration of the inexhaustible connectivity of postcolonialism-as-critical-thinking – not only across academic disciplines and sociopolitical formations but also across generations of scholars with divergent intellectual practices. For anyone concerned with this major field of knowledge, it will prove a stimulating and rewarding read." Rey Chow, Brown University "This much needed collection indicates the continuing significance of postcolonial discourse today and its complex relationship to fields such as critical race theory, ethnic studies, and disability studies. The wide-ranging discussions will make this volume particularly useful to scholars committed to cross-cultural exchanges." Sangeeta Ray, University of Maryland

• List of Contributors viiPreface ixAcknowledgements xIntroduction: Scale and Sensibility xiAto Quayson and David Theo Goldberg1 In Conversation with Neeladri Bhattacharya, Suvir Kaul and Ania Loomba 1Edward Said2 Speaking of Postcoloniality, in the Continuous Present: A Conversation 15Homi Bhabha and John Comaroff3 Resident Alien 47Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak4 Directions and Dead-ends in Postcolonial Studies 66Benita Parry5 Racial Rule 82David Theo Goldberg6 Racist Visions for the Twenty-first Century: On the Cultural Politics of the French Radical Right 103Ann Laura Stoler7 Breaking the Silence and a Break with the Past: African Oral Histories and the Transformations of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Southern Ghana 122Anne Bailey8 Forgotten Like a Bad Dream: Atlantic Slavery and the Ethics of Postcolonial Memory 143Barnor Hesse9 Connectivity, and the Fate of the Unconnected 174Olu Oguibe10 Towards ReConciliation: The Post-Colonial Economy of Giving 184Pal Ahluwalia11 The Economy of Ideas: Colonial Gift and Postcolonial Product 205Zane Ma-Rhea12 Looking Awry: Tropes of Disability in Postcolonial Writing 217Ato Quayson13 Theorizing Disability 231Rosemarie Garland Thomson14 Nature, History, and the Failure of Language: The Problem of the Human in Post-Apartheid South Africa 270John K. Noyes15 Passing as Korean American 282Wendy Ann Lee16 Myths of East and West: Intellectual Property Law in Postcolonial Hong Kong 294Eve Darian-Smith17 A Flexible Foundation: Constructing A Postcolonial Dialogue 320Dawn Duncan18 Linguists and Postcolonial Literature: Englishes in the Classroom 334Laura Wright and Jonathan Hope19 Post-Scriptum 349François VergèsIndex 359