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.
- Ranges widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study
- Presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia
- Provides clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European colonization
- Features introductory essays on the major thinkers and intellectual schools that have informed strategies of national liberation worldwide
- Offers an incisive summary of the long history and theory of modern European colonization in local detail and global scale
List of Contributors ix
Foreword: Upon Reading the Companion to Postcolonial Studies xv
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Acknowledgments xxiii
Mission Impossible: Introducing Postcolonial Studies in the US Academy 1
Henry Schwarz
Part I: Historical and Theoretical Issues 21
1 Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 23
Neil Larsen
2 Postcolonial Feminism/Postcolonialism and Feminism 53
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and You-me Park
3 Heterogeneity and Hybridity: Colonial Legacy, Postcolonial Heresy 72
David Theo Goldberg
4 Postcolonialism and Postmodernism 87
Ato Quayson<lÓ&
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