Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed

AvPramod K. Nayar

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Postcolonialism as a critical approach and pedagogic practice has informed literary and cultural studies since the late 1980s. The term is heavily loaded and has come to mean a wide, and often bewildering, variety of approaches, methods, politics and ideas. Beginning with the historical origins of postcolonial thought in the writings of Gandhi, Cesaire and Fanon, this guide moves on to Edward Said's articulation into a critical approach and finally to postcolonialism's multiple forms in contemporary critical thinking, including theorists such as Bhabha, Spivak, Arif Dirlik and Aijaz Ahmed. Written in jargon-free language and illustrated with examples from literary and cultural texts, this book addresses the many concerns, forms and 'specializations' of postcolonialism, including gender and sexuality studies, the nations and nationalism, space and place, history and politics. It explains the key ideas, concepts and approaches in what is arguably the most influential and politically edged critical approach in literary and cultural theory today

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-10-21
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441138514
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
Serie:Guides for the Perplexed

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Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India, and is also Distinguished Professor, School of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. His most recent books include Vulnerable Earth (2024), Nuclear Cultures (2023) Alzheimer's Disease Memoirs (2021), The Human Rights Graphic Novel (2021), Ecoprecarity (2019), Bhopal's Ecological Gothic (2017), and others. His essays have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, South Asian Review, South Asia, Narrative, Celebrity Studies, Asiatic, Prose Studies, a/b:Auto/Biography Studies, Biography, among others. Nayar also holds the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the University of Hyderabad.

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Pramod Nayar's survey of postcolonialism covers substantial terrain with consummate ease. It moves from the theoretical and literary engagements with colonialism's cultures, the rise of postcolonial thought in anti-colonial struggles through the major literary themes of space, nationalism, sexuality and gender, to newer postcolonial formations in the cosmopolitan and globalized age we live in. Nayar's close attention to tropes, literary figurations, the politics of postcolonial theory and the continued relevance of postcolonial approaches to terrorism, cybercultures and globalization - all carefully illustrated and evidenced from texts from Africa, Asia, South American and other formerly colonized nations - makes this book at once an indispensable introduction to the field and a critical evaluation of the literary-political discipline of "Postcolonial Studies." The book will be of interest to students in History, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies and Theory across the world where questions about race, culture, colonialism and identity continue to productively 'trouble' pedagogy and reading practices.

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Preface \ Introduction: Postcolonial Thought \1. Colonial Cultures \ 2. Nation and Nationalism \ 3. Space and Place \ 4. Gender and Sexuality \ 5. Cosmopolitanisms \ 6. New Concerns \ Further Reading \ Bibliography \ Index