Postcolonialism
An Historical Introduction, Anniversary Edition
Published on 12. October 2016
536 pages
978-1-118-89685-3 (ISBN)
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This seminal work--now available in a 15th anniversary edition with a new preface--is a thorough introduction to the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory.
* Provides a clearly written and wide-ranging account of postcolonialism, empire, imperialism, and colonialism, written by one of the leading scholars on the topic
* Details the history of anti-colonial movements and their leaders around the world, from Europe and Latin America to Africa and Asia
* Analyzes the ways in which freedom struggles contributed to postcolonial discourse by producing fundamental ideas about the relationship between non-western and western societies and cultures
* Offers an engaging yet accessible style that will appeal to scholars as well as introductory students
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Robert J. C. Young is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University, USA. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is one of the pioneers of the study of postcolonial literatures and their cultures, founded on an abiding interest in marginalized peoples and occluded histories. He is the Editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and the author of many books, including Empire, Colony, Postcolony (Wiley Blackwell, 2015), The Idea of English Ethnicity (Wiley Blackwell, 2008), Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race (1995), and White Mythologies (1990).
Content
Preface to the Anniversary Edition ix
Preface to the First Edition xxvi
Acknowledgements xxix
1 Colonialism and the Politics of Postcolonial Critique 1
Part I Concepts in History 13
2 Colonialism 15
3 Imperialism 25
4 Neocolonialism 44
5 Postcolonialism 57
Part II European Anti-colonialism 71
6 Las Casas to Bentham 73
7 Nineteenth-Century Liberalism 88
8 Marx on Colonialism and Imperialism 101
Part III The Internationals 113
9 Socialism and Nationalism: The First International to the Russian Revolution 115
10 The Third International, to the Baku Congress of the Peoples of the East 127
11 The Women's International, the Third and the Fourth Internationals 140
Part IV Theoretical Practices of the Freedom Struggles 159
12 The National Liberation Movements: Introduction 161
13 Marxism and the National Liberation Movements 167
14 China, Egypt, Bandung 182
15 Latin America I: Mariátegui, Transculturation and Cultural Dependency 193
16 Latin America II: Cuba: Guevara, Castro and the Tricontinental 204
17 Africa I: Anglophone African Socialism 217
18 Africa II: Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism 236
19 Africa III: The Senghors and Francophone African Socialism 253
20 Africa IV: Fanon/Cabral 274
21 The Subject of Violence: Algeria, Ireland 293
22 India I: Marxism in India 308
23 India II: Gandhi's Counter-modernity 317
Part V Formations of Postcolonial Theory 335
24 India III: Hybridity and Subaltern Agency 337
25 Women, Gender and Anti-colonialism 360
26 Edward Said and Colonial Discourse 383
27 Foucault in Tunisia 395
28 Subjectivity and History: Derrida in Algeria 411
Epilogue: Tricontinentalism, for a Transnational Social Justice 427
Letter in Response from Jacques Derrida 429
Bibliography 432
Index 476
