Post-Colonial Studies Reader.

Intro -- Title page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction -- Part I Issues and Debates -- Introduction -- 1 The Occasion for Speaking -- 2 The Economy of Manichean Allegory -- 3 Can the Subaltern Speak? -- 4 Signs Taken for Wonders -- 5 Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse -- 6 The Scramble for Post-colonialism -- Part II Universality and Difference -- Introduction -- 7 Colonialist Criticism -- 8 Heroic Ethnocentrism -- 9 Entering Our Own Ignorance -- 10 Western Mathematics -- 11 Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the 'National Allegory' -- Part III Representation and Resistance -- Introduction -- 12 Orientalism -- 13 A Small Place -- 14 Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse -- 15 Figures of Colonial Resistance -- 16 Unsettling the Empire -- 17 The Rhetoric of English India -- Part IV Postmodernism and Post-colonialism -- Introduction -- 18 The Postcolonial and the Postmodern -- 19 Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today -- 20 Circling the Downspout of Empire -- 21 The White Inuit Speaks: Contamination as Literary Strategy -- 22 The Politics of the Possible -- Part V Nationalism -- Introduction -- 23 National Culture -- 24 Fanon, Cabral and Ngugi on National Liberation -- 25 Nationalism as a Problem -- 26 The Discovery of Nationality in Australian and Canadian Literatures -- 27 The National Longing for Form -- 28 Dissemination -- 29 What Ish My Nation? -- Part VI Hybridity -- Introduction -- 30 Fossil and Psyche -- 31 Named for Victoria, Queen of England -- 32 Of the Marvellous Realism of the Haitians -- 33 Marvellous Realism -- 34 Creolization in Jamaica -- 35 Cultural Diversity and Cultural Differences -- Part VII Ethnicity and Indigeneity -- Introduction -- 36 No Master Territories -- 37 Who is Ethnic? -- 38 New Ethnicities -- 39 White Forms, Aboriginal Content.

40 The Representation of the Indigene -- 41 The Myth of Authenticity -- 42 Who Can Write as Other? -- Part VIII Feminism and Post-colonialism -- Introduction -- 43 First Things First -- 44 Decolonizing Culture: Toward a Theory for Post-colonial Women's Texts -- 45 Under Western Eyes: Feminst Scholarship and Colonial Discourses -- 46 Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism -- 47 Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism -- 48 Woman Skin Deep: Feminst and the Postcolonial Condition -- Part IX Language -- Introduction -- 49 The Language of African Literature -- 50 The Alchemy of English -- 51 Language and Spirit -- 52 Constitutive Graphonomy -- 53 New Language, New World -- 54 Nation Language -- 55 Relexification -- Part X The Body and Performance -- Introduction -- 56 The Fact of Blackness -- 57 Jazz and the West Indian Novel -- 58 In Search of the Lost Body: Redefining the Subject in Caribbean Literature -- 59 The Body as Cultural Signifier -- 60 Dance, Movement and Resistance Politics -- 61 Feminism and the Colonial Body -- 62 Outlaws of the Text -- Part XI History -- Introduction -- 63 Allegories of Atlas -- 64 Columbus and the Cannibals -- 65 The Muse of History -- 66 Spatial History -- 67 The Limbo Gateway -- 68 Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History -- Part XII Place -- Introduction -- 69 Unhiding the Hidden -- 70 Writing in Colonial Space -- 71 Naming Place -- 72 Decolonizing the Map -- 73 Aboriginal Place -- 74 Ecological Imperialism -- Part XIII Education -- Introduction -- 75 Minute on Indian Education -- 76 The Beginnings of English Literary Study in British India -- 77 On the Abolition of the English Department -- 78 The Neocolonial Assumption in University Teaching of English -- 79 Ideology in the Classroom: A Case Study in the Teaching of English Literature in Canadian Universities -- 80 Education and Neocolonialism.

81 The Race for Theory -- Part XIV Production and Consumption -- Introduction -- 82 The Historiography of African Literature Written in English -- 83 Singapore: Poet, Critic, Audience -- 84 Postcolonial Culture, Postimperial Criticism -- 85 The Book Today in Africa -- 86 Literary Colonialism: Books in the Third World -- Bibliography -- Index.

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