Overview

The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised into five cross-referenced sections, 'The Imperial Past', 'The Colonial Present', 'Theory and Practice', 'Across the Disciplines', and 'Across the World'. The chapters offer both country-specific and comparative approaches to current issues, offering a wide range of new and interesting perspectives. The Handbook reflects the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of postcolonial studies and reiterates its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past, in its multiple manifestations, and the contemporary globalized world. Taken together, these essays, the dialogues they pursue, and the editorial comments that surround them constitute nothing less than a blueprint for the future of a much-contested but intellectually vibrant and politically engaged field.

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Author:   Graham Huggan (Chair of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures, School of English, University of Leeds)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.278kg
ISBN:  

9780198778455

ISBN 10:   0198778457
Pages:   752
Publication Date:   13 October 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Graham Huggan: General Introduction Section One: The Imperial Past Graham Huggan: Introduction Ann Laura Stoler: Reason Aside: Reflections on Enlightenment and Empire Tyler Stovall: Empires of Democracy Patricia Seed: The Imperial Past: Spain and Portugal in the New World Walter Mignolo: Imperial/Colonial Metamorphosis: A Decolonial Narrative, from the Ottoman Sultanate and Spanish Empire to the US and the EU Salman Sayyid: Empire, Islam, and the Postcolonial Timothy Brennan: Hegel, Empire, and Anti-Colonial Thought Stephen Howe: Section One Response: Imperial Histories, Postcolonial Theories Section Two: The Colonial Present Graham Huggan: Introduction Stephen Morton: Violence, Law, and Justice in the Colonial Present Priyamvada Gopal: Renegade Prophets and Native Acolytes: Liberalism and Imperialism Today Waleed Hazbun: The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Challenge of Postcolonial Agency: International Relations, US Policy and the Arab World Joanne Sharp: Africa's Colonial Present: Development, Violence, and Postcolonial Security David Farrier and Patricia Tuitt: Beyond Biopolitics: Agamben, Asylum, and Postcolonial Critique Jo Smith and Stephen Turner: Indigenous Inhabitations and the Colonial Present Peter Hallward: Section Two Response: Towards an Anti-Colonial Future Section Three: Theory and Practice Graham Huggan: Introduction Elleke Boehmer: Revisiting Resistance: Postcolonial Practice and the Antecedents of Theory Neil Lazarus: 'Third Worldism' and the Political Imaginary of Postcolonial Studies Susan Bassnett: Postcolonialism and/as Translation Michael Rothberg: Remembering Back: Cultural Memory, Colonial Legacies, and Postcolonial Studies Simon Featherstone: Postcolonialism and Popular Cultures Pooja Rangan and Rey Chow: Race, Racism, and Postcoloniality Leela Gandhi: Section Three Response: Theory and Practice in Postcolonial Studies Section Four: Across the Disciplines Graham Huggan: Introduction Diana Brydon: Modes and Models of Postcolonial Cross-Disciplinarity John McLeod: Postcolonialism and Literature Dane Kennedy: Postcolonialism and History Barry Hindess: 'Slippery, Like a Fish': The Discourse of the Social Sciences Ananda Abeysekara: At the Limits of the Secular: History and Critique in Postcolonial Religious Studies Dana Mount and Susie O Brien: Postcolonialism and the Environment David Attwell: Section Four Response: Origins, Outcomes and the Meaning of Postcolonial Diversity Section Five: Across the World Graham Huggan: Introduction Nikita Dhawan and Shalini Randeria: Perspectives on Globalization and Subalternity Daniel Vukovich: Postcolonialism, Globalization, and the Asia Question Michelle Keown and Stuart Murray: 'Our Sea of Islands': Globalization, Regionalism and (Trans)nationalism in the Pacific Ato Quayson: Africa and its Diasporas Charles Forsdick: Postcolonializing the Americas Frank Schulze-Engler: Irritating Europe Ali Behdad: Section Five Response: What was Globalization? Stephen Slemon: Afterword

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The book is an important update on the current state of discussion in the field. Dobrota Pucherova, Journal of Postcolonial Writing

the book is bound to inspire postcolonial scholars to address in creative ways some of the important questions that face us now. * Christine Lorre-Johnston, Commonwealth Essays and Studies * The book is an important update on the current state of discussion in the field. * Dobrota Pucherova, Journal of Postcolonial Writing *

The book is an important update on the current state of discussion in the field. * Dobrota Pucherova, Journal of Postcolonial Writing * the book is bound to inspire postcolonial scholars to address in creative ways some of the important questions that face us now. * Christine Lorre-Johnston, Commonwealth Essays and Studies *

Author Information

Graham Huggan is Chair of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures in the School of English at the University of Leeds, where he also directs the cross-disciplinary Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the general field of comparative postcolonial studies, a field he has been working in for over twenty years.

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