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Publisher: Oxford India Paperbacks |
| Author: LEELA GANDHI | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 200 | |
| Cover: Paperback | |
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8.3" X 5.4" |
| Edition: 2005 | |
| ISBN: 0195647610 | |
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Postcolonial Theory is a ground-breaking critical introduction to the burgeoning field of postcolonial studies.
Leela Gandhi maps out this field clearly in terms of its wider philosophical and intellectual context, drawing important connections between postcolonial theory and poststructuralism, postmodernism, Marxism and feminism. She assesses the contribution of major theorists such as Edward said, Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhaba, and also points to the influence of earlier thinkers such as Frantz Fanon
This book is distinctive in its concern for the specific historical, material and cultural contexts for postcolonial theory, and in its attempt to sketch out the ethical possibilities for postcolonial theory as a model for living with and 'knowing' cultural
Postcolonial Theory is a useful starting point or readers new to the field and a provocative account, which opens possibilities for debate.
About the Author
Leela Gandhi lectures in the school of English at La Trobe University, Melbourne, she researches the cultural history of the Indo-British colonial encounter, and has published extensively in this area. She is joint editor of the journal Postcolonial Studies.
| Acknowledgments | vii | |
| Preface | viii | |
| 1 | After colonialism | 1 |
| The colonial aftermath Postcolonial re-membering Gandhi and Fanon: the slave's recovery | ||
| 2 | Thinking otherwise: a brief intellectual history Marxism, poststructuralism and the problem of humanism What is Enlightenment? Descartes' error Nietzsche's genealogy | 23 |
| 3 | Postcolonialism and the new humanities Provincialism Europe Power, Knowledge and the humanities Oppositional criticism and the new humanities Oppositional criticism and the new humanities The world and the book The postcolonial intellectual | 42 |
| 4 | Edward Said and his critics | 64 |
| Enter Orientalism The Said phenomenon | ||
| Rethinking colonial discourse | ||
| 5 | Postcolonialism and feminism | 81 |
| Imperialist feminisms: woman (in) difference Gendered subalterns: the (Other) woman in the attic Conflicting loyalties: brothers v. sisters Between men: rethinking the colonial encounter | ||
| 6 | Imagining community: the question of nationalism | 102 |
| Good and bad nationalisms Midnight's children: the politics of nationhood A derivative discourse? | ||
| 7 | One world: the vision of postnationalism | 122 |
| Globalisation, hybridity, diaspora Mutual transformations Postnational Utopias: toward an ethics of hybridity | ||
| 8 | Postcolonial literatures | 144 |
| Textual politics | ||
| 9 | The limits of postcolonial theory | 167 |
| The meta-narrative of colonialism The end of colonialism | ||
| Bibliography | 177 | |
| Index | 189 |
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