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A collection of essays by both leading figures and younger scholars engaged in the field of postcolonial studies. With diverse works that emerge from such disciplines as South Asian, Latin American, Arab and Jewish studies, the volume responds to sceptics and adherers alike addressing not only the broad theoretical issues at stake within the field but also the position of the field itself within the academy, as well as its relationship to modern, post-modern, and Marxist discourses. Contributors offer critiques on historical and universalizing tendencies in postcolonial work and confront the need for scholars to attend to issues of class, ideology, and the effects of neo-colonial practices. Seeking to broaden the field's traditionally literary broader spectrum of methodologies, these essayists take up large thematic issues to examine specific sites of colonial activities with all of their historical, political and cultural significance. Closing the volume is an interview with Homi Bhabha, in which he discusses postcolonial studies in the context of contemporary cultural politics and theory.

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Many of the chapters in this collection are a fascinating tour de force that makes the volume a must item in the libraries of not only those interested in postcolonial studies, discourses, theories, and paradigms, but also those interested in power, production of knowledge, the postcolonial state, marginality, and feminist struggles as well as literary and cultural criticism, modernity and postmodern paradigms. . . . [The contributors'] multidisciplinary and critical, as well as self-reflexive, approach to postcolonial studies is timely and theoretically challenging and stimulating. --Huda Seif, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics

Many of the chapters in this collection are a fascinating tour de force that makes the volume a must item in the libraries of not only those interested in postcolonial studies, discourses, theories, and paradigms, but also those interested in power, production of knowledge, the postcolonial state, marginality, and feminist struggles as well as literary and cultural criticism, modernity and postmodern paradigms. . . . [The contributors'] multidisciplinary and critical, as well as self-reflexive, approach to postcolonial studies is timely and theoretically challenging and stimulating. <br>--Huda Seif, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics

A timely intervention in the debates surrounding the contribution made by postcolonial theory and the status of the discipline indicated by the term postcolonial. This anthology enables a broadening and deepening of the field. Sangeeta Ray, author of <i>En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives</i>

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Fawzia Afzal-Khan is Professor of English at Montclair State University in New Jersey. She is the author of Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel: Genre and Ideology in the Novels of R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie. Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks is Assistant Professor of English at Boston College. She is the author of Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis of Racial Visibility (forthcoming).

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