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Beschreibung
An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to map out a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this volume assesses the current state of the field and points toward its most promising new developments. In addressing questions about the definition and relevance of postcolonial scholarship, many of the essays consider its relation to the study of globalization. While some contributors offer broad reflections on the existing two-way influence between postcolonial theory and established university disciplines such as literary criticism and history, others forge ahead into some vital, if nascent, areas for postcolonial research such as media studies, environmental studies, religious studies, and linguistic and semantic analysis.
The contributors represent many of the fields altered by postcolonial studies over the past two decades, including literary studies, history, anthropology, Asian and African studies, and political science. They model diverse applications of postcolonial theory to Latin America, East Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. Postcolonial Studies and Beyond propels the field forward. It showcases scholars coming from intellectual precincts usually considered outside the purview of the postcolonial finding new ways to deploy classic techniques of postcolonial analysis, and scholars strongly associated with postcolonial studies offering substantial critiques designed to challenge the field's most fundamental assumptions.
Contributors. Tani E. Barlow, Ali Behdad, Daniel Boyarin, Timothy Brennan, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, Laura Chrisman, Jean Comaroff, Frederick Cooper, Vilashini Cooppan, Jed Esty, James Ferguson, Peter Hulme, Suvir Kaul, Neil Lazarus, Ania Loomba, Florencia E. Mallon, Nivedita Menon, Rob Nixon, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, David Scott, Ella Shohat, Kelwyn Sole, Robert Stam, Rebecca L. Stein
An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to map out a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this volume assesses the current state of the field and points toward its most promising new developments. In addressing questions about the definition and relevance of postcolonial scholarship, many of the essays consider its relation to the study of globalization. While some contributors offer broad reflections on the existing two-way influence between postcolonial theory and established university disciplines such as literary criticism and history, others forge ahead into some vital, if nascent, areas for postcolonial research such as media studies, environmental studies, religious studies, and linguistic and semantic analysis.
The contributors represent many of the fields altered by postcolonial studies over the past two decades, including literary studies, history, anthropology, Asian and African studies, and political science. They model diverse applications of postcolonial theory to Latin America, East Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. Postcolonial Studies and Beyond propels the field forward. It showcases scholars coming from intellectual precincts usually considered outside the purview of the postcolonial finding new ways to deploy classic techniques of postcolonial analysis, and scholars strongly associated with postcolonial studies offering substantial critiques designed to challenge the field's most fundamental assumptions.
Contributors. Tani E. Barlow, Ali Behdad, Daniel Boyarin, Timothy Brennan, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, Laura Chrisman, Jean Comaroff, Frederick Cooper, Vilashini Cooppan, Jed Esty, James Ferguson, Peter Hulme, Suvir Kaul, Neil Lazarus, Ania Loomba, Florencia E. Mallon, Nivedita Menon, Rob Nixon, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, David Scott, Ella Shohat, Kelwyn Sole, Robert Stam, Rebecca L. Stein
Über den Autor

Ania Loomba is Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Suvir Kaul is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Matti Bunzl is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Antoinette Burton is Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, Department of History, University of Illinois.

Jed Esty is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix

Beyond What? An Introduction / Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, and Jed Esty 1

Part 1. Globalization and the Postcolonial Eclipse

Beyond the Straits: Postcolonial Allegories of the Globe / Peter Hulme 41

On Globalization, Again! / Ali Behdad 62

The Ruins of Empire: The National and Global Politics of America’s Return to Rome / Vilashini Cooppan 80

The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery / Timothy Brennan 101

Part 2. Neoliberalism and the Postcolonial World

The End of History, Again? Pursuing the Past in the Postcolony / Jean Comaroff 125

A Flight from Freedom / Elizabeth A. Povinelli 145

Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development / James Ferguson 166

“The Deep Thoughts the One in Need Falls Into”: Quotidian Experience and the Perspectives of Poetry in Postliberation South Africa / Kelwyn Sole 182

Between the Burqa and the Beauty Parlor? Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, and Feminist Politics / Nivedita Menon 206

Part 3. Beyond the Nation-State (and Back Again)

Environmentalism and Postcolonialism / Rob Nixon 233

Beyond Black Atlantic and Postcolonial Studies: The South African Differences of Sol Plaatje and Peter Abrahams / Laura Chrisman 252

Pathways to Postcolonial Nationhood: The Democratization of Difference in Contemporary Latin America / Florencia E. Mallon 272

Traveling Multiculturalism: A Trinational Debate in Translation / Robert Stam and Ella Shohat 293

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the Post/colonial Question / Rebecca L. Stein 317

Part 4. Postcolonial Studies and the Disciplines in Transformation

Hybridity and Heresy: Apartheid Comparative Religion in Late Antiquity / Daniel Boyarin 339

Eugenic Woman, Semicolonialism, and Colonial Modernity as Problems for Postcolonial Theory / Tani E. Barlow 359

The Social Construction of Postcolonial Studies / David Scott 385

Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History / Frederick Cooper 401

The Politics of Postcolonial Modernism / Neil Lazarus

Bibliography 439

Contributors 479

Index 483
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780822335238
ISBN-10: 0822335239
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: A Loomba
Redaktion: Loomba, Ania
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 235 x 156 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Ania Loomba
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.06.2005
Gewicht: 0,773 kg
Artikel-ID: 102372298