Postcolonial Studies : An Anthology.

Intro -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Europe's Transnational Pasts -- II. The Postcolony's Transnational Present -- References -- Part One: Framing the Postcolonial -- 1 The Fact of Blackness -- 2 Introduction to Orientalism -- I -- II -- III -- 3 Of Mimicry and Man -- 4 Scattered Speculations on the Subaltern and the Popular -- 5 Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism -- 6 Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the "National Allegory" -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- 7 Re-Orientalism -- Introducing Re-Orientalism -- Analysis of Recent Trends in South Asian Women's Literature -- The Problems of Re-Orientalism -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 8 Postcolonial Remains -- I. The Politics of Invisibility -- II. Unreadable Islam -- III. Convivencia -- IV. The Other -- 9 Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change -- The Human in Postcolonial Criticism Today -- The Human in the Anthropocene -- In Conclusion -- Part Two: The Question of History and Historical Subjects -- 10 Historylessness -- History and 'Settler Society' -- The Historiography of an Impossible History -- Conclusion: Historia Nullius -- 11 Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization -- Postcolonial Studies -- Postcolonial Studies and Latin America -- Latin American Studies and Postcolonial Studies -- Latin American Elephants in the Americas? -- Works Cited -- 12 History Without a Cause? Grand Narratives, World History, and the Postcolonial Dilemma -- The Cultural Turn and The Decline of Causation -- Is All The World an Anecdote? -- The Postcolonial Dilemma -- The New Macro-History? -- Back to The Future: Concluding Remarks -- 13 "Africa as an Alien Future" -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Part Three: Language, Literacy, Education -- 14 On English from India -- I -- II.

III -- IV -- 15 Rhetorical Sovereignty -- Sovereignty is (also) rhetorical -- Rhetorical sovereignty at the C &amp -- R ranch -- Works Cited -- 16 Histories of Publishing under Apartheid -- OUP's Vision for South Africa, 1928-1947 -- Academic and Educational Publishing, 1946-1962 -- Constraints on Liberal Publishing, 1962-1970 -- Censorship and Collaboration, 1962-1970 -- Crisis and Conflict, 1970-1972 -- Publishing for Bantu Education, 1970s and 1980s -- Conclusion -- 17 Re-ethicizing the Classroom -- Works Cited -- Part Four: Nation, Space, Identity -- 18 Whiteness in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe -- Whiteness and Nationalism in Eastern Europe -- The Return of The Racist Repressed -- Whiteness and The Romans -- The Romans as Gypsy -- References -- 19 Asian Canadian Futures -- Works cited -- 20 Ireland, Empire and Utopia -- A Response -- Ireland and Utopia -- Ireland, Empire and Enlightenment -- Revival, Rising and Utopia -- Conclusion -- 21 Narrative Agency and Thinking about Conflicts -- Narratives of Resistance -- Towards Narrative Shifts -- New Narratives and Their Possibilities -- References -- 22 The Ballad of the Sad Café -- Reading the Café -- Cafés and Zionist Fantasy -- Empty Landscapes -- Postcolonialities and Palestine/Israel -- References -- Part Five: Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism -- 23 Cosmopolitanism and the De-colonial Option -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- References -- 24 Solidarity and Spheres of Culture -- Solidarity and Liberal Cosmopolitanism -- The Postcolonial Critique of Liberal Cosmopolitanism -- Solidarity and Political Cosmopolitanism -- Conclusion -- 25 Literature/Identity -- 26 The Limits of Cultural Hybridity -- Order and Hybridity -- Ritual Licence in Morocco -- Impure and Pure: Intentional and Organic Hybridities -- The Limits of Cultural Hybridity -- The Satanic Verses -- Conclusion -- References.

Part Six: Gender and Sexuality -- 27 Veils and Sales -- Saturday August 6 2005 -- Dress as a Spatialized Practice -- Veiling as a Spatial System -- Dress as a Temporal Practice: Veiling, Shopping, and Non-Western Modernities -- Regulating Bodies in Space: Shop Dress Codes -- Spaces of Fashion -- Conclusion: Selling Spaces -- References -- 28 "Patriarchal Colonialism" and Indigenism -- The Myth of "Tribalism" and U. S. Colonialism -- On Indigenous Kinship and Traditional Communalism -- On "Patriarchal Colonialism" -- Native American Women and Indigenism: For Native Feminist Spirituality -- A Call for "Native Womanism": From Sacred Kinship Traditions -- References -- 29 Sex, Violence and History in the Lives of Idi Amin -- Works cited -- 30 Empire, Desire and Violence -- 'Operation Iraqi Hope', 'Whiteness' and the National 'Save Civilization Itself'-Fantasy -- A Queer Transnational Feminist Reading of the Torture Practices -- Conclusions -- References -- Part Seven: Science, Environment, Development -- 31 Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor -- The Green Belt Movement and Sustainable Security -- The Theatre of the Tree -- Colonialism, Mau Mau, and the Forest in National Memory -- Intersectional Environmentalism, Gender, and Colonial Conservation -- Environmental Agency and Ungovernable Women:Maathai and Carson -- Conclusion -- Coda -- Works Cited -- 32 Postcolonial and Feminist Philosophies of Science and Technology -- What are Feminist and Postcolonial STS? -- Sites of Dissonance -- Conjoining Conceptual Frameworks -- Looking forward: engaging with 'strange logics' of research -- Unresolved issues -- Conclusion -- 33 The Myth of Isolates -- Ecosystem Ecology -- Visualizing the Laboratory -- Metaphoric Displacement -- 34 Bio-Prospecting or Bio-Piracy -- Biotechnology and The Convention on Biodiversity.

Science and The Colonization of the Natural World -- The Growth of Biochemical Knowledge -- Intellectual Property Rights and Biological Resources -- The Merck/Inbio Deal -- The Biodiversity Convention and Indigenous Rights -- Conclusion -- Part Eight: Globalization, Digital Cultures, Identity -- 35 Global Primordialities -- The Logic of Globality and Primordiality: Technological and Cultural Fields in India Since the 1990s -- Online Hindu Nationalist and Dalit Discourse as Cyberhistoriography -- Conclusion: Locating the 'Virtual' in Virtual Identity Politics -- References -- 36 Hidden Sides of the Credit Economy -- Literature -- Research Methods, Sites, and Sources -- Credit as a Driver of Outsourcing -- Emotional Routines of Transnational Credit -- Outsourcing as Conduit for the Emotion Work of Credit -- Transnational Dissonance in the Emotions of Credit -- Implications -- Conclusion -- References -- 37 eEmpires -- e=M-C-M -- The Electronic Empire -- The Age of Electronic Networks -- Works Cited -- 38 The Woman on the Other Side of the Wall -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Works Cited -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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