After Colonialism
Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements
Will be published approx. on 19. December 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-691-03742-4 (ISBN)
Description
After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America to Europe--the essays in this volume reexamine colonialism and its aftermath. Leading literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists engage with recent theories and perspectives in their specific studies, showing the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world and offering postcolonial reflections on the effects and experience of empire. The contributions cross historical analysis of texts with textual examination of historical records and situate metropolitan cultural practices in engagements with non-metropolitan locations. Interdisciplinarity here means exploring and realigning disciplinary boundaries. Contributors to After Colonialism include Edward Said, Steven Feierman, Joan Dayan, Ruth Phillips, Anthony Pagden, Leonard Blusse, Gauri Viswanathan, Zachary Lockman, Jorge Klor de Alva, Irene Silverblatt, Emily Apter, and Homi Bhabha.
Reviews / Votes
"The contributors are drawn from literary and cultural studies, anthropology, and history, and their work represents the latest in subaltern studies and theorizing about postcolonialism... The contributors challenge disciplinary categories, conventional notions of cultural difference, and offer alternative 'displacements.'"--Virginia Quarterly ReviewMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
591 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-03742-4 (9780691037424)
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E-Book
11/1994
1st Edition
Princeton University Press
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Person
Gyan Prakash is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University. He is the author of Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India and coeditor of Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia.
Content
Preface p.vii Introduction: After Colonialism p.3 PART ONE: COLONIALISM AND THE DISCIPLINES Ch. 1 Secular Interpretation, the Geographical Element, and the Methodology of Imperialism p.2 Ch. 2 Africa in History: The End of Universal Narratives p.40 Ch. 3 Haiti, History, and the Gods p.66 Ch. 4 Why Not Tourist Art? Significant Silences in Native American Museum Representations p.98 PART TWO: COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE Ch. 5 The Effacement of Difference: Colonialism and the Origins of Nationalism in Diderot and Herder p.129 Ch. 6 Retribution and Remorse: The Interaction between the Administration and the Protestant Mission in Early Colonial Formosa p.153 Ch. 7 Coping with (Civil) Death: The Christian Convert's Rights of Passage in Colonial India p.183 Ch. 8 Exclusion and Solidarity: Labor Zionism and Arab Workers in Palestine, 1897-1929 p.211 Ch. 9 The Postcolonization of the (Latin) American Experience: A Reconsideration of "Colonialism,"Postcolonialism," and "Mestizaje" p.241 PART THREE: COLONIAL DISCOURSE AND ITS DISPLACEMENTS Ch. 10 Becoming Indian in the Central Andes p.279 Ch. 11 Ethnographic Travesties: Colonial Realism, French Feminism, and the Case of Elissa Rhais p.299 Ch. 12 In a Spirit of Calm Violence p.326 Notes on the Contibutors p.345 Index p.347