Author: Ania Loomba
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 289
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0415128099
Description
This accessible volume provides a vital introduction to the historical dimensions and theoretical concepts associated with colonial and postcolonial discourse.
Ania Loomba examines:
• Key features of the ideologies of colonialism
• The relationship of colonial discourse to literature
• Challenges to colonialism, linking ant colonial discourses to recent developments in postcolonial
theories and histories
• how sexual, racial and class difference intersect with colonial ideologies and postcolonial
discourses
This clear and concise volume is a must for any student needing to come to terms with this crucial and complex area.
Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
SITUATING COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
Defining the Terms: Colonialism, Imperialism, Neo-colonialism, Postcolonialism
From Colonialism to colonial Discourse
Colonial Discourse
Colonialism and Knowledge
Colonialism and Literature
Textuality, Discourse and Material Processes
CHAPTER 2
COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL IDENTITIES
Constructing Racial and Cultural Difference
Race, Class and Colonialism
Psychoanalysis and Colonials Subjects
Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Discourse
Hybridity
CHAPTER 3
CHALLENGING COLONIALISM
Nationalisms and Pan-nationalisms
Feminism, Nationalism and Postcolonialism
Can the Subaltern Speak?
Post-modernism and Postcolonial Studies
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index