Reading Postcolonial Theory

Bibhash Choudhury teaches English in Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India. He is the author of English Social and Cultural History (2005), Beyond Cartography: The Contemporary South Asian Novel in English (2011) and E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime (2013). He has also edited a number of books including Edward Said and the Politics of Culture (2008), Amitav Ghosh: Critical Essays (2009) and Western Mythology: Accounts, Versions, Tales (2014).

• Preface Introduction 1. Albert Memmi: The Colonizer and the Colonized — Albert Memmi and Francophone Critical Theory 2. Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth — Fanon: Registers, Impact and the Question of Theory 3. Ngugi wa Thiongo: Decolonizing the Mind — Ngugi and the Language Question in African Literature 4. Edward W. Said: Orientalism — The Framing of the Case: Said’s "Introduction" to Orientalism 5. Chinua Achebe: Home and Exile — Chinua Achebe and Modern African Writing 6. Paul Carter: The Road to Botany Bay — Land-Marked: Space, Memory, Colonization 7. Ashis Nandy: The Intimate Enemy — Ashis Nandy and Contemporary Cultural Discourse 8. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: In Other Worlds — Forms of Engagement and Cultures of Reading 9. Homi K. Bhabha: The Location of Culture — The Question of Agency: Bhabha’s Postcolonial Imperative 10. Robert J. C. Young: White Mythologies — Robert Young and the Critical Context of White Mythologies 11. Sara Suleri: The Rhetoric of English India — Unreadable India: Difficulties of Mapping Nation and its Culture Bibliography Index