"First published in paperback 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mission impossible: introducing postcolonial studies in the US Academy / Henry Schwarz -- Imperialism, colonialism, postcolonialism / Neil Larsen -- Postcolonial feminism/postcolonialism and feminism / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and You-me Park -- Heterogeneity and hybridity: colonial legacy, postcolonial heresy / David Theo Goldberg -- Postcolonialism and postmodernism / Ato Quayson -- Postcolonial studies in the house of US multiculturalism / Jenny Sharpe -- Global capital and transnationalism / Crystal Bartolovich -- A vindication of double consciousness / Doris Sommer -- Human understanding and (Latin) American interests: the politics and sensibilities of geohistorical locations / Walter D. Mignolo -- US imperialism: global dominance without colonies / Donald E. Pease -- Indigenousness and indigeneity / Jace Weaver -- Creolization, orality, and nation language in the Caribbean / Supriya Nair -- Middle-class consciousness and patriotic literature in South Asia / Sumit Sarkar -- Africa: varied colonial legacies / Tejumola Olaniyan -- The "Middle East"? Or ... /Arabic literature and the postcolonial predicament / Magda M. Al-Nowaihi -- King Kong in Hong Kong: watching the "handover" from the USA / Rey Chow -- Japan and East Asia / Sandra Buckley -- Intellectuals, theosophy, and failed narratives of the nation in late colonial Java -- Laurie J. Sears -- Settler colonies / Anna Johnston and Alan Lawson -- Ireland after history / David Lloyd -- Global disjunctures, diasporic differences, and the new world (dis- )order / Ali Behdad -- Home, homo, hybrid: translating gender / Geeta Patel -- Humanism in question: Fanon and Said / Anthony C. Alessandrini -- Spivak and Bhabha / Bart Moore-Gilbert -- A small history of subaltern studies / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Feminist theory in perspective / Ipshita Chanda -- Global gay formations and local homosexualities / Katie King -- Rethinking English: postcolonial English studies / Gaurav Desai -- Postcolonial legality / Upendra Baxi -- Race, gender, class, postcolonialism: toward a new humanistic paradigm? / Bruce Robbins -- Postscript: popular perceptions of postcolonial studies after 9/11 -- Sangeeta Ray.

This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947. Ranging widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study today, the volume presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia. Their contributions provide clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, separate regions affected by European colonization, and introductory essays on the major thinkers and intellectual schools that have informed strategies of national liberation worldwide. This volume is unique in providing an incisive summary of the long history and theory of modern European colonization in local detail and global scale. It will be a necessary reference tool for years to come.

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