Emphasising the increasingly regional or national approach to the legacies of colonialism, this Reader provides an entirely new way for students to engage with an important and complex area of discourse.Thematic Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Editor’s Introduction: Resistance and Complicity in Postcolonial Studies.
Selected Bibliography..
Part I: Post-Colonial Discourses: Complicity and Critique.
Spontaneity: Its Strength and Weakness (Frantz Fanon).
Discrepant Experiences (Edward W Said).
Unsatisfied: Notes on Vernacular Cosmopolitanism (Homi K Bhabha).
The Burden of English (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak).
Colonialism and Desiring Machines (Robert Young).
Post-Colonial Critical Theories (Stephen Slemon).
Part II: Indian Nations: The Conundrum of Difference.
The Prose of Counter-Insurgency (Ranajit Guha).
The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question (Partha Chatterjee).
Representing Sati: Continuities and Discontinuities (Rajeswari Sunder Rajan).
Nationalism, Gender, and the Narrative of Identity (R Radhakrishnan).
Part III: African Identities: Resistance and Race.
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness (Chinua Achebe).
African Identities (Kwame Anthony Appiah).
Unsystematic Fingers at the Conditions of Times': 'Afropop' and the Paradoxes of Imperialism (Neil Lazarus).
Sheroes and Villains: Conceptualizing Colonial and Contemporary Violence Against Women in Africa (Amina Mana).
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