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.
"List of Figures Acknowledgments General Introduction Introduction to the Second Edition Introduction to the Third Edition PART I: Origins Introduction 1. Thomas Macaulay Minute on Indian Education 2. Raja Rao Language and Spirit 3. George Lamming The Occasion for Speaking 4. Edward W. Said Orientalism 5. Ato Quayson Introduction: Postcolonial Literature in a Changing Historical Frame PART II: Issues and Debates Introduction 6. Gayatri Spivak Can the Subaltern Speak? 7. Homi K. Bhabha Signs Taken for Wonders 8. Achille Mbembe and Libby Meintjes Necropolitics 9. Ann Laura Stoler On Degrees of Imperial Sovereignty 10. Christopher Taylor Postcolonial Studies and the Specter of Misplaced Polemics against Postcolonial Theory: A Review of the Chibber Debate 11. Bill Ashcroft Including China: Bei Dao, Resistance and the Imperial State Part III: Representation and Resistance Introduction 12. Ken Saro-Wiwa Trial Statement 13. Helen Tiffin Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse 14. Ranajit Guha Subaltern Studies: Projects for Our Time and Their Convergence 15. María do Mar Castro Varela and Carolina Tamayo Rojas Epistemicide, Postcolonial Resistance and the State 16. Anna Bernard Cultural Activism as Resource: Pedagogies of Resistance and Solidarity 17. Nobukhosi Ngwenya and Bettina von Lieres Silent Citizens and Resistant Texts: Reading Hidden Narratives PART IV: Nationalism Introduction 18. Frantz Fanon On National Culture 19. Partha Chatterjee Nationalism as a Problem 20. Homi K. Bhabha Dissemination: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation 21. Timothy Brennan The National Longing for Form 22. David Cairns and Shaun Richards What Ish My Nation? 23. Ephraim Nimni Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Self-Determination: A Paradigm Shift PART V: Hybridity Introduction 24. Edward Kamu Braithwaite Creolization in Jamaica 25. Michael Dash Marvellous Realism: The Way Out of Négritude 26. Homi K. Bhabha Cultural Diversity and Cultural Differences 27. Robert Young The Cultural Politics of Hybridity 28. Anjali Prabhu Interrogating Hybridity 29. Deepika Bahri Hybridity, Redux Part VI: Indigeneity Introduction 30. Gareth Griffiths The Myth of Authenticity 31. Margery Fee Who Can Write as Other? 32. Diana Brydon Contamination as Literary Strategy 33. James Clifford Indigenous Articulations 34. Paul Sharrad Indigenous Transnational 35. Geoff Rodoreda The Mabo Turn Part VII: Race and Ethnicity Introduction 36. Henty Louis Gates Writing Race 37. Kwame Anthony Appiah The Illusions of Race 38. Stuart Hall New Ethnicities 39. Philip Gleason Identifying Identity 40. Howard Winant Race, Ethnicity and Social Science 41. Julian Go Postcolonial Possibilities for the Sociology of Race Part VIII: Whiteness Introduction 42. Frantz Fanon The Fact of Blackness 43. Paul Gilroy Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack 44. Richard Dyer White 45. Toni Morrison When Whiteness Became Ideology 46. AnnLouise Keating Interrogating Whiteness 47. Anne Brewster Critical Whiteness Studies 48. Mike Hill Whiteness, Writing, and Other Ordinary Terrors Part IX: Gender, Sexuality and Identity Introduction 49. Chandra Talpade Mohanty Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses 50. Kirsten Holst Petersen First Things First: Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature 51. Ketu H. Katrak Decolonizing Culture: Toward a Theory for Post-Colonial Women’s Texts 52. Sara Suleri Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition 53. Oyerónké Oyewumí Colonizing Bodies and Minds 54. Golnaz Golnaraghi and Kelly Dye Discourses of Contradiction: A Postcolonial Analysis of Muslim Women and the Veil 55. Chantal Zabus and Samir Kumar Das Hijras, Sangomas, and Their Translects: Trans(lat)ing India and South Africa Part X: Language Introduction 56. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o The Language of African Literature 57. Chinua Achebe The Politics of Language 58. Edward Kamau Brathwaite Nation Language 59. Braj B. Kachru The Alchemy of English 60. Bill Ashcroft Language and Transformation 61. Nicholas G. Faraclas and Sally J. Delgado Post-Colonial Linguistics and Post-Creole Creolistics Part XI: Performance Introduction 62. Reina Lewis On Veiling, Vision and Voyage 63. Daniel L. Selden ‘Our Films, their Films’: Postcolonial Critique of the Cinematic Apparatus 64. Eugene Williams ""The Anancy Technique"", A Gateway to Postcolonial Performance 65. Aparna Dharwadker The Really Poor Theatre: Postcolonial Economies of Performance 66. Gareth Griffiths “Pictures on the Wall, Music in the Air”: Popular Culture Forms, Human Rights Agitation and Fiction in Africa 67. Helen Gilbert Indigenous Festivals in the Pacific: Cultural Renewal, Decolonization and Nation-Building Part XII: History Introduction 68. Wilson Harris The Limbo Gateway 69. Peter Hulme Columbus and the Cannibals 70. Dipesh Chakrabarty Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History 71. Ashish Nandy History’s Forgotten Doubles 72. Ato Quayson The Sighs of History: Postcolonial Debris and the Question of (Literary) History 73. Laura Doyle Inter-Imperiality: Dialectics in a Postcolonial World History PART XIII: Place Introduction 74. José Rabasa Allegories of Atlas 75. Graham Huggan Decolonizing the Map 76. Paul Carter Naming Place 77. G. Malcolm Lewis Indigenous Map Making 78. Bill Ashcroft Urbanism, Mobility and Bombay: Reading the Postcolonial City 79. Gareth Griffiths Postcolonialism and Travel Writing Part XIV: Production and Consumption Introduction 80. Arjun Appadurai Commodities and the Politics of Value 81. Anne McClintock Soft-Soaping Empire 82. Graham Huggan Re-Evaluating the Postcolonial Exotic 83. Sarah Brouillette Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace 84. Paula Morris ‘The Leftovers of Empire’: Commonwealth writers and the Booker Prize 85. Hayley Toth Reading in the Global Literary Marketplace Part XV: Diaspora, Refugees and Migration Introduction 86. Stuart Hall Cultural Identity and Diaspora 87. Avtah Brah Thinking through the Concept of Diaspora 88. Ahmed Gamal The Global and the Postcolonial in Post-Migratory Literature 89. Susan P. Mains Commentary, Postcolonial Migrations 90. Mike Phillips Postcolonial Endgame 91. Claire Gallien Refugee Literature: What Postcolonial Theory Has to Say Part XVI: Globalization Introduction 92. Roland Robertson Glocalization 93. Arjun Apparudai Disjunction and Difference 94. Simon Gikandi Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality 95. Ina Kerner Postcolonial Theories as Global Critical Theories 96. Sankaran Krishna Globalization and Postcolonialism: Hegemony and Resistance in the Twenty-First Century Part XVII: Decoloniality Introduction 97. Gurminder K. Bhambra Postcolonial and Decolonial Dialogues 98. Aníbal Quijano Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality 99. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Decoloniality as the Future of Africa 100. Ramón Grosfoguel The Epistemic Decolonial Turn 101. Walter D. Mignolo Coloniality is Far from Over, and So Must Be Decoloniality 102. Catherine Walsh ‘Other’ Knowledges, ‘Other’ Critiques: Reflections on the Politics and Practices of Philosophy and Decoloniality in the ‘Other’ America Part XVIII: Environment and Climate Introduction 103. Alfred W. Crosby Ecological Imperialism 104. Val Plumwood Decolonizing Relationships with Nature 105. Arundhati Roy The Greater Common Good 105. Russell McDougall, John C. Ryan and Pauline Reynolds Climate Change as Critical Reading Practice 107. Rob Nixon Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor 108. Dipesh Chakrabarty The Human and The Anthropocene Part XIX: Animals and Speciesism Introduction 109. Philip Armstrong The Postcolonial Animal 110. Marjorie Spiegel The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery 111. Erica Fudge Animal 112. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment 113. J.M. Coetzee The Lives of Animals 114. Freya Mathews The Anguish of Wildlife Ethics Part XX: Postcolonial Science Introduction 115. Alan J. Bishop Western Mathematics: The Secret Weapon of Cultural Imperialism 116. Warwick Anderson and Vincanne Adams Pramoedya’s Chickens: Postcolonial Studies of Technoscience 117. Derek Hook A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial 118. Kapil Raj Beyond Postcolonialism . . . and Postpositivism: Circulation and the Global History of Science 119. Suman Seth Colonial History and Postcolonial Science Studies 120. Angela Willey A World of Materialisms: Postcolonial Feminist Science Studies and the New Natural Part XXI: Postcolonial Sacred Introduction 121. Gauri Viswanathan Conversion, ‘Tradition’ and National Consolidation 122. Laura E. Donaldson God, Gold, and Gender 123. William Baldridge Reclaiming Our Histories 124. Peter van der Veer Global Conversions 125. Rosa Vasilaki Between Postcolonialism and Radical Historicism: The Contested Muslim Political Subject Bibliography Index"
Bill Ashcroft is Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales. He is a renowned critic and theorist, founding exponent of postcolonial theory, and author of 21 books and over 200 articles and chapters. Co-editor of The Postcolonial Studies Reader, he is also co-author of The Empire Writes Back, the first text to offer a systematic examination of the field of postcolonial studies. Gareth Griffiths is Emeritus Professor at the University of Western Australia. He has published widely in the field of postcolonial literatures and literary theory. Co-editor of The Postcolonial Studies Reader, he is also co-author of The Empire Writes Back, the first text to offer a systematic examination of the field of postcolonial studies. He has published many books and over 70 articles and chapters on literary and cultural topics with an emphasis on postcolonial writing and culture. Helen Tiffin is Adjunct Professor at the University of Wollongong. Co-editor of The Postcolonial Studies Reader, she is also co-author of The Empire Writes Back, the first text to offer a systematic examination of the field of postcolonial studies. She has authored or edited eight books and over 80 articles and chapters on postcolonial literatures, literary theory, and animal and environmental subjects.