[eBook Code] A Companion to Postcolonial Studies (eBook Code, 1st)

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

5 Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism 112
Jenny Sharpe

6 Global Capital and Transnationalism 126
Crystal Bartolovich

Part II: The Local and the Global 163

7 A Vindication of Double Consciousness 165
Doris Sommer

8 Human Understanding and (Latin) American Interests – The Politics and Sensibilities of Geohistorical Locations 180
Walter D. Mignolo

9 US Imperialism: Global Dominance without Colonies 203
Donald E. Pease

10 Indigenousness and Indigeneity 221
Jace Weaver

11 Creolization, Orality, and Nation Language in the Caribbean 236
Supriya Nair

12 “Middle-class” Consciousness and Patriotic Literature in South Asia 252
Sumit Sarkar

13 Africa: Varied Colonial Legacies 269
Tejumola Olaniyan

14 The “Middle East”? Or . . . /Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial Predicament 282
Magda M. Al-Nowaihi

15 King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the “Handover” from the USA 304
Rey Chow

16 Japan and East Asia 319
Sandra Buckley

17 Intellectuals, Theosophy, and Failed Narratives of the Nation in Late Colonial Java 333
Laurie J. Sears

18 Settler Colonies 360
Anna Johnston and Alan Lawson

19 Ireland After History 377
David Lloyd

20 Global Disjunctures, Diasporic Differences, and the New World (Dis-)Order 396
Ali Behdad

21 Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender 410
Geeta Patel

Part III: The Inventiveness of Theory 429

22 Humanism in Question: Fanon and Said 431
Anthony C. Alessandrini

23 Spivak and Bhabha 451
Bart Moore-Gilbert

24 A Small History of Subaltern Studies 467
Dipesh Chakrabarty

25 Feminist Theory in Perspective 486
Ipshita Chanda

26 Global Gay Formations amd Local Homosexualities 508
Katie King

Part IV: Cultural Studies and the Accommodation of Postcolonialism 521

27 Rethinking English: Postcolonial English Studies 523
Gaurav Desai

28 Postcolonial Legality 540
Upendra Baxi

29 Race, Gender, Class, Postcolonialism: Toward a New Humanistic Paradigm? 556
Bruce Robbins

Postscript: Popular Perceptions of Postcolonial Studies after 9/11 574
Sangeeta Ray

Index 584