ABSTRACT

The most comprehensive collection of postcolonial writing theory and criticism, this third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 125 extracts from key works in the field.

Leading, as well as lesser-known figures in the fields of writing, theory and criticism contribute to this inspiring body of work that includes sections on nationalism, hybridity, diaspora and globalisation. As in the first two editions, this new edition of The Postcolonial Studies Reader ranges as widely as possible to reflect the remarkable diversity of work in the discipline and the vibrancy of anti-imperialist and decolonising writing both within and without the metropolitan centres.

This volume includes new work in the field over the decade and a half since the second edition was published. Covering more debates, topics and critics than any comparable book in its field The Postcolonial Studies Reader provides the ideal starting point for students and issues a potent challenge to the ways in which we think and write about literature and culture.

part I|26 pages

Origins

chapter Chapter 1|3 pages

Thomas Macaulay

Minute on Indian Education

chapter Chapter 2|2 pages

Raja Rao

Language and Spirit

chapter Chapter 3|6 pages

George Lamming

The Occasion for Speaking

chapter Chapter 4|4 pages

Edward W. Said

Orientalism

chapter Chapter 5|5 pages

Ato Quayson

Introduction: Postcolonial Literature in a Changing Historical Frame

part II|42 pages

Issues and Debates

chapter Chapter 6|7 pages

Gayatri Spivak

Can the Subaltern Speak?

chapter Chapter 7|7 pages

Homi K. Bhabha

Signs Taken for Wonders

chapter Chapter 8|5 pages

Achille Mbembe and Libby Meintjes

Necropolitics

chapter Chapter 9|6 pages

Ann Laura Stoler

On Degrees of Imperial Sovereignty

chapter Chapter 10|6 pages

Christopher Taylor

Postcolonial Studies and the Specter of Misplaced Polemics against Postcolonial Theory A Review of the Chibber Debate

chapter Chapter 11|5 pages

Bill Ashcroft

Including China Bei Dao, Resistance and the Imperial State

part III|32 pages

Representation and Resistance

chapter Chapter 12|2 pages

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Trial Statement

chapter Chapter 13|4 pages

Helen Tiffin

Post Colonial Literatures and Counter-Discourse

chapter Chapter 14|5 pages

Ranajit Guha

Subaltern Studies Projects for Our Time and Their Convergence

chapter Chapter 15|6 pages

María do Mar Castro Varela and Carolina Tamayo Rojas

Epistemicide, Postcolonial Resistance and the State

chapter Chapter 16|5 pages

Anna Bernard

Cultural Activism as Resource Pedagogies of Resistance and Solidarity

chapter Chapter 17|6 pages

Nobukhosi Ngwenya and Bettina von Lieres

Silent Citizens and Resistant Texts Reading Hidden Narratives

part IV|30 pages

Nationalism

chapter Chapter 18|5 pages

Frantz Fanon

National Culture

chapter Chapter 19|3 pages

Partha Chatterjee

Nationalism as a Problem

chapter Chapter 20|2 pages

Homi K. Bhabha

Dissemination Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation

chapter Chapter 21|5 pages

Timothy Brennan

The National Longing for Form

chapter Chapter 22|3 pages

David Cairns and Shaun Richards

What Ish My Nation?

chapter Chapter 23|6 pages

Ephraim Nimni

Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Self-Determination A Paradigm Shift

part V|30 pages

Hybridity

chapter Chapter 24|3 pages

Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Creolization in Jamaica

chapter Chapter 25|3 pages

Michael Dash

Marvellous Realism The Way Out of Négritude

chapter Chapter 26|4 pages

Homi K. Bhabha

Cultural Diversity and Cultural Difference

chapter Chapter 27|5 pages

Robert Young

The Cultural Politics of Hybridity

chapter Chapter 28|5 pages

Anjali Prabhu

Interrogating Hybridity

chapter Chapter 29|6 pages

Deepika Bahri

Hybridity, Redux

part VI|36 pages

Indigeneity

chapter Chapter 30|5 pages

Gareth Griffiths

The Myth of Authenticity

chapter Chapter 31|4 pages

Margery Fee

Who Can Write as Other?

chapter Chapter 32|6 pages

Diana Brydon

Contamination as Literary Strategy

chapter Chapter 33|5 pages

James Clifford

Indigenous Articulations

chapter Chapter 34|5 pages

Paul Sharrad

Indigenous Transnational

chapter Chapter 35|7 pages

Geoff Rodoreda

The Mabo Turn

part VII|32 pages

Race and Ethnicity

chapter Chapter 36|4 pages

Henry Louis Gates

Writing Race

chapter Chapter 37|3 pages

Kwame Anthony Appiah

The Illusions of Race

chapter Chapter 38|5 pages

Stuart Hall

New Ethnicities

chapter Chapter 39|3 pages

Philip Gleason

Identifying Identity

chapter Chapter 40|6 pages

Howard Winant

Race, Ethnicity and Social Science

chapter Chapter 41|7 pages

Julian Go

Postcolonial Possibilities for the Sociology of Race

part VIII|38 pages

Whiteness

chapter Chapter 42|4 pages

Frantz Fanon

The Fact of Blackness

chapter Chapter 43|3 pages

Paul Gilroy

Ain't No Black in the Union Jack

chapter Chapter 44|4 pages

Richard Dyer

White

chapter Chapter 45|5 pages

Toni Morrison

When Whiteness Became Ideology

chapter Chapter 46|6 pages

AnnLouise Keating

Interrogating Whiteness

chapter Chapter 47|6 pages

Anne Brewster

Critical Whiteness Studies

chapter Chapter 48|4 pages

Mike Hill

Whiteness, Writing, and Other Ordinary Terrors

part IX|40 pages

Gender, Sexuality and Identity

chapter Chapter 49|5 pages

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Under Western Eyes Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses

chapter Chapter 50|4 pages

Kirsten Holst Petersen

First Things First Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature

chapter Chapter 51|4 pages

Ketu H. Katrak

Decolonizing Culture Toward a Theory for Postcolonial Women's Texts

chapter Chapter 52|7 pages

Sara Suleri

Woman Skin Deep Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition

chapter Chapter 53|4 pages

Oyerónké Oyewumí

Colonizing Bodies and Minds

chapter Chapter 54|6 pages

Golnaz Golnaraghi and Kelly Dye

Discourses of Contradiction A Postcolonial Analysis of Muslim Women and the Veil

chapter Chapter 55|6 pages

Chantal Zabus and Samir Kumar Das

Hijras, Sangomas, and Their Translects Trans(lat)ing India and South Africa

part X|34 pages

Language

chapter Chapter 56|6 pages

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

The Language of African Literature

chapter Chapter 57|4 pages

Chinua Achebe

The Politics of Language

chapter Chapter 58|5 pages

Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Nation Language

chapter Chapter 59|4 pages

Braj B. Kachru

The Alchemy of English

chapter Chapter 60|5 pages

Bill Ashcroft

Language and Transformation

chapter Chapter 61|6 pages

Nicholas G. Faraclas and Sally J. Delgado

Post Colonial Linguistics and Post-Creole Creolistics

part XI|38 pages

Performance

chapter Chapter 62|5 pages

Reina Lewis

On Veiling, Vision and Voyage

chapter Chapter 63|5 pages

Daniel L. Selden

‘Our Films, Their Films’Postcolonial Critique of the Cinematic Apparatus

chapter Chapter 64|5 pages

Eugene Williams

“The Anancy Technique”, A Gateway to Postcolonial Performance

chapter Chapter 65|5 pages

Aparna Dharwadker

The Really Poor Theatre Postcolonial Economies of Performance

chapter Chapter 66|5 pages

Gareth Griffiths

“Pictures on the Wall, Music in the Air”Popular Culture Forms, Human Rights Agitation and Fiction in Africa

chapter Chapter 67|7 pages

Helen Gilbert

Indigenous Festivals in the Pacific Cultural Renewal, Decolonization and Nation-Building

part XII|38 pages

History

chapter Chapter 68|4 pages

Wilson Harris

The Limbo Gateway

chapter Chapter 69|5 pages

Peter Hulme

Columbus and the Cannibals

chapter Chapter 70|6 pages

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History

chapter Chapter 71|5 pages

Ashis Nandy

History's Forgotten Doubles

chapter Chapter 72|5 pages

Ato Quayson

The Sighs of History Postcolonial Debris and the Question of (Literary) History

chapter Chapter 73|7 pages

Laura Doyle

Inter-Imperiality Dialectics in a Postcolonial World History

part XIII|36 pages

Place

chapter Chapter 74|6 pages

José Rabasa

Allegories of Atlas

chapter Chapter 75|4 pages

Graham Huggan

Decolonizing the Map

chapter Chapter 76|5 pages

Paul Carter

Naming Place

chapter Chapter 77|4 pages

G. Malcolm Lewis

Indigenous Map Making

chapter Chapter 78|6 pages

Bill Ashcroft

Urbanism, Mobility and Bombay Reading the Postcolonial City

chapter Chapter 79|5 pages

Gareth Griffiths

Postcolonialism and Travel Writing

part XIV|38 pages

Production and Consumption

chapter Chapter 80|4 pages

Arjun Appadurai

Commodities and the Politics of Value

chapter Chapter 81|4 pages

Anne McClintock

Soft-Soaping Empire

chapter Chapter 82|6 pages

Graham Huggan

Re-Evaluating the Postcolonial Exotic

chapter Chapter 83|5 pages

Sarah Brouillette

Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace

chapter Chapter 84|6 pages

Paula Morris

‘The Leftovers of Empire’Commonwealth Writers and the Booker Prize

chapter Chapter 85|7 pages

Hayley Toth

Reading in the Global Literary Marketplace

part XV|38 pages

Diaspora, Refugees and Migration

chapter Chapter 86|5 pages

Stuart Hall

Cultural Identity and Diaspora

chapter Chapter 87|4 pages

Avtah Brah

Thinking Through the Concept of Diaspora

chapter Chapter 88|6 pages

Ahmed Gamal

The Global and the Postcolonial in Post-Migratory Literature

chapter Chapter 89|5 pages

Susan P. Mains

Commentary, Postcolonial Migrations

chapter Chapter 90|5 pages

Mike Phillips

Postcolonial Endgame

chapter Chapter 91|7 pages

Claire Gallien

Refugee Literature What Postcolonial Theory Has to Say

part XVI|30 pages

Globalisation

chapter Chapter 92|5 pages

Roland Robertson

Glocalization

chapter Chapter 93|5 pages

Arjun Appadurai

Disjunction and Difference

chapter Chapter 94|5 pages

Simon Gikandi

Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality

chapter Chapter 95|6 pages

Ina Kerner

Postcolonial Theories as Global Critical Theories

chapter Chapter 96|5 pages

Sankaran Krishna

Globalization and Postcolonialism Hegemony and Resistance in the Twenty-First Century

part XVII|38 pages

Decoloniality

chapter Chapter 97|5 pages

Gurminder K. Bhambra

Postcolonial and Decolonial Dialogues

chapter Chapter 98|6 pages

Aníbal Quijano

Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality

chapter Chapter 99|6 pages

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Decoloniality as the Future of Africa

chapter Chapter 100|6 pages

Ramón Grosfoguel

The Epistemic Decolonial Turn

chapter Chapter 101|5 pages

Walter D. Mignolo

Coloniality Is Far from Over, and So Must Be Decoloniality

chapter Chapter 102|6 pages

Catherine Walsh

‘Other’ Knowledges, ‘Other’ Critiques Reflections on the Politics and Practices of Philosophy and Decoloniality in the ‘Other’ America

part XVIII|36 pages

Environment and Climate

chapter Chapter 103|4 pages

Alfred W. Crosby

Ecological Imperialism

chapter Chapter 104|5 pages

Val Plumwood

Decolonizing Relationships with Nature

chapter Chapter 105|5 pages

Arundhati Roy

The Greater Common Good

chapter Chapter 106|6 pages

Russell McDougall, John C. Ryan and Pauline Reynolds

Climate Change as Critical Reading Practice

chapter Chapter 107|5 pages

Rob Nixon

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

chapter Chapter 108|5 pages

Dipesh Chakrabarty

The Human and the Anthropocene

part XIX|24 pages

Animals and Speciesism

chapter Chapter 109|3 pages

Philip Armstrong

The Postcolonial Animal

chapter Chapter 110|3 pages

Marjorie Spiegel

The Dreaded Comparison Human and Animal Slavery

chapter Chapter 111|2 pages

Erica Fudge

Animal

chapter Chapter 112|4 pages

Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin

Postcolonial Ecocriticism Literature, Animals, Environment

chapter Chapter 113|2 pages

J.M. Coetzee

The Lives of Animals

chapter Chapter 114|6 pages

Freya Mathews

The Anguish of Wildlife Ethics

part XX|40 pages

Postcolonial Science

chapter Chapter 115|5 pages

Alan J. Bishop

Western Mathematics The Secret Weapon of Cultural Imperialism

chapter Chapter 116|6 pages

Warwick Anderson and Vincanne Adams

Pramoedya's Chickens Postcolonial Studies of Technoscience

chapter Chapter 117|5 pages

Derek Hook

A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial

chapter Chapter 118|6 pages

Kapil Raj

Beyond Postcolonialism … and Postpositivism Circulation and the Global History of Science

chapter Chapter 119|6 pages

Suman Seth

Colonial History and Postcolonial Science Studies

chapter Chapter 120|6 pages

Angela Willey

A World of Materialisms Postcolonial Feminist Science Studies and the New Natural

part XXI|24 pages

Postcolonial Sacred

chapter Chapter 121|4 pages

Gauri Viswanathan

Conversion, ‘Tradition’ and National Consolidation

chapter Chapter 122|4 pages

Laura E. Donaldson

God, Gold, and Gender

chapter Chapter 123|3 pages

William Baldridge

Reclaiming Our Histories

chapter Chapter 124|3 pages

Peter van der Veer

Global Conversions

chapter Chapter 125|6 pages

Rosa Vasilaki

Between Postcolonialism and Radical Historicism The Contested Muslim Political Subject