Order and Partialities

Kostas Myrsiades is Professor of English at West Chester University and Editor of College Literature. Jerry McGuire is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southwestern Louisiana and Managing Editor of College Literature.

"This is a rich, diverse resource that presents a variety of views concerning the conception of 'post-colonial literatures' and the teaching of such writings. The articles stand out as complex, detailed, creatively and comprehensively theorized, going beyond narrow readings to show how particular texts can disrupt discourses and logics which continue to secure the Western appropriation of 'the Other.'" — Roger I. Simon, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education"This collection of essays takes on some of the thorniest critical problems in postcolonial studies in highly nuanced and complex ways. The book consistently refuses a simplistic or reductive theoretical unity and coherence, instead capturing the rich and dynamic critical exchanges that characterize the best contemporary postcolonial theory."— Madhu Dubey, Northwestern University

• IntroductionLalita Pandit and Jerry McGuirePart I. Theory: New Histories and (Multi)cultural Poetics1. Dimensions of African DiscourseAiola Irele2. An Iconography of Difference: Internal Colonialism, Photography, and the Crofters of the Highlands and Islands of ScotlandMartin Padget3. Sanctioned and Proscribed Narratives in Postcolonial India: A Bicultural Reading of the Courtesan FilmPoonam Arora4. The Gender of Tradition: Ideologies of Character in Post-Colonization Anglophone LiteraturePatrick Colm Hogan5. "Logiques metisses": Cultural Appropriation and Postcolonial RepresentationsFrancoise Lionnet6. Narrative, Pluralism, and Decolonization: Recent Caribbean LiteraturePatrick Taylor7. Hysterical Bodies, Colonial Subjects: La Mere's Hystery in Duras' Un barage contre le PacifiqueJoline Blais8. Launcelot's Feast: Teaching Poststructuralism and the New MestizaLaura E. Donaldson9. Subalterity and Feminism in the Moment of the (Post)modern: The Materialist Return Teresa L. Ebert10. Postcolonial Tour 93 (All Major U.S. Cities)Amitava KumarPart II. Pedagogy: Terminologies, Problematics, Readings11. Dodging the Crossfire: Questions for Postcolonial PedagogyRajeswari Mohan12. Teaching at the End of EmpireStephen Slemon13. Heart of Darkness, Tarzan, and the "Third World": Canons and Encounters in World Literature, English 109Allen Carey-Webb14. The Hybrid Terrains of Literary Imagination: Maryse Conde's Black Witch of Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, and Aime Cesaire's Heroic Poetic VoiceMara L. Dukats15. Other Worlds, Other Texts: Teaching Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day to Canadian StudentsArun Mukherjee16. "And Here I Am, Telling in Winnebago How I Lived My Life": Teaching Mountain Wolf WomanSusan Gardner17. Parenting the Nation: Some Observations on Nuruddin Farah's MapsDerek Wright18. Re-Inventing Ourselves a Million Times: Narrative, Desire, and Identity in Bharati Mukherjee's JasmineF. Timothy RuppelIndex