Ania Loomba is Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.Suvir Kaul is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.Matti Bunzl is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.Antoinette Burton is Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, Department of History, University of Illinois.Jed Esty is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

“Postcolonial Studies and Beyond will have a place in reviewing and defining the development of postcolonial studies similar to that which Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture had for cultural studies.”-David Lloyd, coeditor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital “What truly distinguishes this volume is its attempt to find for postcolonial studies a real critical vocation at a time when the issue of Empire is once again a global subject of debate. Rich in scholarship and in the diversity of views represented here, this book will help renew the questions it addresses.”-Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference

• Acknowledgments ixBeyond What? An Introduction / Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, and Jed Esty 1Part 1. Globalization and the Postcolonial Eclipse Beyond the Straits: Postcolonial Allegories of the Globe / Peter Hulme 41On Globalization, Again! / Ali Behdad 62The Ruins of Empire: The National and Global Politics of America’s Return to Rome / Vilashini Cooppan 80The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery / Timothy Brennan 101Part 2. Neoliberalism and the Postcolonial World The End of History, Again? Pursuing the Past in the Postcolony / Jean Comaroff 125A Flight from Freedom / Elizabeth A. Povinelli 145Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development / James Ferguson 166“The Deep Thoughts the One in Need Falls Into”: Quotidian Experience and the Perspectives of Poetry in Postliberation South Africa / Kelwyn Sole 182Between the Burqa and the Beauty Parlor? Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, and Feminist Politics / Nivedita Menon 206Part 3. Beyond the Nation-State (and Back Again) Environmentalism and Postcolonialism / Rob Nixon 233Beyond Black Atlantic and Postcolonial Studies: The South African Differences of Sol Plaatje and Peter Abrahams / Laura Chrisman 252Pathways to Postcolonial Nationhood: The Democratization of Difference in Contemporary Latin America / Florencia E. Mallon 272Traveling Multiculturalism: A Trinational Debate in Translation / Robert Stam and Ella Shohat 293The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the Post/colonial Question / Rebecca L. Stein 317Part 4. Postcolonial Studies and the Disciplines in Transformation Hybridity and Heresy: Apartheid Comparative Religion in Late Antiquity / Daniel Boyarin 339Eugenic Woman, Semicolonialism, and Colonial Modernity as Problems for Postcolonial Theory / Tani E. Barlow 359The Social Construction of Postcolonial Studies / David Scott 385Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History / Frederick Cooper 401The Politics of Postcolonial Modernism / Neil Lazarus Bibliography 439Contributors 479Index 483

Ania Loomba is Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.Suvir Kaul is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.Matti Bunzl is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.Antoinette Burton is Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, Department of History, University of Illinois.Jed Esty is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

“Postcolonial Studies and Beyond will have a place in reviewing and defining the development of postcolonial studies similar to that which Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture had for cultural studies.”-David Lloyd, coeditor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital “What truly distinguishes this volume is its attempt to find for postcolonial studies a real critical vocation at a time when the issue of Empire is once again a global subject of debate. Rich in scholarship and in the diversity of views represented here, this book will help renew the questions it addresses.”-Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference

• Acknowledgments ixBeyond What? An Introduction / Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, and Jed Esty 1Part 1. Globalization and the Postcolonial Eclipse Beyond the Straits: Postcolonial Allegories of the Globe / Peter Hulme 41On Globalization, Again! / Ali Behdad 62The Ruins of Empire: The National and Global Politics of America’s Return to Rome / Vilashini Cooppan 80The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery / Timothy Brennan 101Part 2. Neoliberalism and the Postcolonial World The End of History, Again? Pursuing the Past in the Postcolony / Jean Comaroff 125A Flight from Freedom / Elizabeth A. Povinelli 145Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development / James Ferguson 166“The Deep Thoughts the One in Need Falls Into”: Quotidian Experience and the Perspectives of Poetry in Postliberation South Africa / Kelwyn Sole 182Between the Burqa and the Beauty Parlor? Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, and Feminist Politics / Nivedita Menon 206Part 3. Beyond the Nation-State (and Back Again) Environmentalism and Postcolonialism / Rob Nixon 233Beyond Black Atlantic and Postcolonial Studies: The South African Differences of Sol Plaatje and Peter Abrahams / Laura Chrisman 252Pathways to Postcolonial Nationhood: The Democratization of Difference in Contemporary Latin America / Florencia E. Mallon 272Traveling Multiculturalism: A Trinational Debate in Translation / Robert Stam and Ella Shohat 293The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the Post/colonial Question / Rebecca L. Stein 317Part 4. Postcolonial Studies and the Disciplines in Transformation Hybridity and Heresy: Apartheid Comparative Religion in Late Antiquity / Daniel Boyarin 339Eugenic Woman, Semicolonialism, and Colonial Modernity as Problems for Postcolonial Theory / Tani E. Barlow 359The Social Construction of Postcolonial Studies / David Scott 385Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History / Frederick Cooper 401The Politics of Postcolonial Modernism / Neil Lazarus Bibliography 439Contributors 479Index 483