Colonization or Globalization?

Silvia Nagy-Zekmi is a professor of Hispanic and Cultural Studies and director of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at Villanova University. She authored Transatlantic Parallelisms: Postcoloniality and Writings by Women in Latin America and North Africa ; History of Andean Folksons; edited Paradoxical Citizenship; Orientalism in Latin America and coedited with Fernando Leiva Democracy in Chile.Chantal Zabus is a professor of Comparative Postcolonial Literatures and Gender Studies at the University Paris 13; a researcher with the University of Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, as well as a senior scholar at the Institut Universitaire de France, Paris. She is the author of Between Rites and Rights, The African Palimpsest, and Tempests after Shakespeare. She has also edited Fearful Symmetries: Essays and Testimonies on Excision and Circumcision; Changements au féminin en Afrique noire; and with Jacques Derrida, Le Secret.

Covering a wide range of texts—from contemporary British detective fiction to Hollywood's King Solomon's Mines—the essays in this collection deploy a variety of postcolonial approaches to examine and argue for a continuum between colonialism and globalization. This is a timely, refreshing volume, which will be of keen interest to scholars of contemporary literature and culture.

• Chapter 1 The Language of Imperial Expansion Pg. viiPart 2 I. Neo-Imperial Traces or Premonitions in ModernityChapter 3 Empire, the Question of Representation and the Erasure of InhabitancyChapter 4 Contemporary Hollywood and the Persistence of the Empire: Nostalgia and Post-Imperial Voyeurism in Hallmark's King Solomon's MinesChapter 5 British Nostalgia for the Ottoman Past: The Legible Multiethnicity of Old Istanbul in the Works of Barbara Nadel and Jason GoodwinChapter 6 Utopian Fiction and Imperial Homogeneity: The Case of William Morris's News from Nowhere and Yussuf Sybaai's The Land of HypocrisyPart 7 II. Interference of the Imperial Tradition in AsiaChapter 8 Colonizing the Mind: Education and Literacy in Colonial IndiaChapter 9 Re-presenting the Empire: the Picturesque Aesthetic in 69Satyajit Ray's The Chess PlayersChapter 10 Deconstructing the Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy: Arundhati Roy's Political EssaysChapter 11 Nuclear Imperialism: The United States and MicronesiaPart 12 III. Reformulations of the Imperial ProjectChapter 13 The Nemesis of Empire as MimesisChapter 14 Empire, Allegorical Imperative, and Games of Truth: J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the BarbariansChapter 15 "Child-Emporererer (Vacncy)": Apprehending U.S. Empire through Robert Fitterman's MetropolisChapter 16 The "Armageddon Election" and the Antichrist DebatesChapter 17 Imperialism is on the March: Market Tyranny and the Fight Beyond Revolution