The Pre-occupation of Postcolonial Studies (häftad)
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Engelska
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424
Utgivningsdatum
2000-09-01
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illustrated ed
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Duke University Press
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Afzal-Khan, Fawzia (ed.), Seshadri-Crooks, Kalpana (ed.)
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10 b&w photographs
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235 x 152 x 29 mm
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627 g
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1
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9780822325215

The Pre-occupation of Postcolonial Studies

av Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks
Häftad,  Engelska, 2000-09-01
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The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies contains essays by both leading figures and younger scholars engaged in the field of postcolonial studies. In this state-of-the-field reader, editors Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks have created a dynamic forum for contributors from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary vantage points to question both the limits and the limitations of postcolonial thought. Since it burst on the academic scene as the hot new disciplinary field during the final decade of the twentieth century, postcolonial studies has faced criticism from those who question its troubling trajectories, its sometimes suspect epistemological and pedagogical methods, and its relatively narrow focus. With diverse essays that emerge from such disciplines as South Asian, Latin American, Arab, and Jewish studies, this volume responds to skeptics and adherers alike, addressing not only the broad theoretical issues at stake within the field but also the position of the field itself within the academy, as well as its relationship to modern, postmodern, and Marxist discourses. Contributors offer critiques on ahistorical and universalizing tendencies in postcolonial work and confront the need for scholars to attend to issues of class, ideology, and the effects of neocolonial practices. Seeking to broaden the fields traditionally literary spectrum of methodologies, these essayists take up large thematic issues to examine specific sites of colonial activities with all of their historical, political, and cultural significance. Closing the volume is an insightful interview with Homi Bhabha, in which he discusses postcolonial studies in the context of contemporary cultural politics and theory. The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies not only offers an overview of the discipline but also pushes and pulls at the edges of postcolonial studies, offering a comprehensive view of the fields diversity of thought and envisioning clear pathways for its future.Contributors. Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Ali Behdad, Homi Bhabha, Daniel Boyarin, Neil Larsen, Saree Makdisi, Joseph Massad, Walter Mignolo, Hamid Naficy, Ngugi Wa Thingo, Timothy B. Powell, R. Radhakrishnan, Bruce Robbins, Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, Ella Shohat, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
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A timely intervention in the debates surrounding the contribution made by postcolonial theory and the status of the discipline indicated by the term postcolonial. This anthology enables a broadening and deepening of the field.Sangeeta Ray, author of En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives

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Fawzia Afzal-Khan is Professor of English at Montclair State University in New Jersey. She is the author of Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel: Genre and Ideology in the Novels of R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie. Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks is Assistant Professor of English at Boston College. She is the author of Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis of Racial Visibility (forthcoming).

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Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 At the Margins of Postcolonial Studies: Part 1 / Kalpana Sheshadri-Crooks 3 At the Margins of Postcolonial Studies: Part 2 / Fawzia Afzal-Khan 24 1. The Occupation of Postcolonial Studies: Knowledge and Institutional Politics Postmodernism and the Rest of the World / R. Radhakrishnan 37 Une Pratique Sauvage: Postcolonial Belatedness and Cultural Politics / Ali Behdad 71 (Post)Occidentalism, (Post)Coloniality, and (Post)Subaltern Rationality / Walter Mignolo 86 Borders and Bridges: Seeking Connections between Things / Ngugi Wa Thiongo 119 Notes on the "Post-Colonial" / Ella Shohat 126 DetermiNation: Postcolonialism, Poststructuralism, and the Problem of Ideology / Neil Larsen 140 Secularism, Elitism, Progress, and Other Transgressions: On Edward Said's "Voyage In" / Bruce Robbins 157 2. The Preoccupations of Postcolonial Studies: Modernity, Sexuality, Nation Street Theater in Pakistani Punjab: The Case of Ajoka, Lok Rehs, and the (So-Called) Woman Question / Fawzia Afzal-Khan 171 Beyond the Hysterectomies Scandal: Women, the Institution, the Family, and State in India / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 200 The Colonial Drag: Zionism, Gender, and Mimicry / Daniel Boyarin 234 Postcolonial Literature in a Neocolonial World: Modern Arabic Culture and the End of Modernity / Saree Makdisi 266 Self-Othering: A Postcolonial Discourse on Cinematic First Contacts / Hamid Naficy 292 The "Post-Colonial" Colony: Time, Space, and Bodies in Palestine/Israel / Joseph Massad 311 Postcolonial Theory in an American Context: A Reading of Martin Delany's Blake / Timothy Powell 347 Postscript Surviving Theory: A Conversation with Homi K. Bhabha / Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks 369 Works Cited 381 Contributors 403 Index 407 Permissions 413

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