The issues of colonialism and imperialism have recently come to the forefront of thinking in the humanities. Disciplines such as history, literature and anthropology are taking stock of their extensive and usually unacknowledged legacy of Empire. At the same time, contemporary cultural theory has had to respond to post-colonial pressure, with its different registers and agendas. This volume ranges, geographically, from Brazil to India and South Africa, from the Andes to the Caribbean and the USA. This range is matched by a breadth of historical perspectives. Central to the whole volume is a critique of the very idea of the postcolonial itself. Contributors include Annie Coombes, Simon During, Peter Hulme, Neil Lazarus, David Lloyd, Anne McClintock, Zita Nunes, Benita Parry, Graham Pechey, Mary Louise Pratt, Renato Rosaldo and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1Transculturation and autoethnography: Peru 1615/1980
Mary Louise Pratt
Chapter 2Rousseau's patrimony: primitivism, romance and becoming other
Simon During
Chapter 3The locked heart: the creole family romance of Wide Sargasso Sea
Peter Hulme
Chapter 4The recalcitrant object: culture contact and the question of hybritidy
Annie E. Coombes
Chapter 5Anthropology and race in Brazilian modernism
Zita Nu?es
Chapter 6How to read a 'culturally different' book
Gayatri Spivak
Chapter 7Post-apartheid narratives
Graham Pechey
Chapter 8Resistance theory/theorising resistance, or two cheers for nativism
Benita Parry
Chapter 9National consicousness and the specificity of (post) colonial intellectualism
Neil Lazarus
Chapter 10Ethnic cultures, minority discourse and the state
David Lloyd
Chapter 11Social justice and the crisis of national communities
Renato Rosaldo
Chapter 12The angel of progress: pitfalls of the term 'postcolonialil³t
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