Postcolonial Studies An Anthology [Paperback]

This new anthology brings together the most diverse and recent voices in postcolonial theory to emerge since 9/11, alongside classic texts in established areas of postcolonial studies.

• Brings fresh insight and renewed political energy to established domains such as nation, history, literature, and gender
• Engages with contemporary concerns such as globalization, digital cultures, neo-colonialism, and language debates
• Includes wide geographical coverage – from Ireland and India to Israel and Palestine
• Provides uniquely broad coverage, offering a full sense of the tradition, including significant essays on science, technology and development, education and literacy, digital cultures, and transnationalism
• Edited by a distinguished postcolonial scholar, this insightful volume serves scholars and students across multiple disciplines from literary and cultural studies, to anthropology and digital studies

Preface x

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Part 1 Framing the Postcolonial 13

1 The Fact of Blackness 15
Frantz Fanon

2 Introduction to Orientalism 33
Edward Said

3 Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse 53
Homi K. Bhabha

4 Scattered Speculations on the Subaltern and the Popular 60
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

5 Third?]World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism 71
Fredric Jameson

6 Jameson’s Rhetoric of Otherness and the “National Allegory” 91
Aijaz Ahmad

7 Re-lC.