Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction

Title page......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 7
Preface......Page 8
1 After colonialism......Page 11
The colonial aftermath......Page 15
Postcolonial re-membering......Page 19
Gandhi and Fanon: the slaves recovery......Page 27
2 Thinking otherwise: a brief intellectual history......Page 33
What is Enlightenment?......Page 40
Descartes' error......Page 44
Nietzsche's genealogy......Page 47
Provincialising Europe......Page 52
Power, knowledge and the humanities......Page 55
Oppositional criticism and the new humanities......Page 62
The world and the book......Page 64
The postcolonial intellectual......Page 68
Enter Orientalism......Page 74
The Said phenomenon......Page 78
Rethinking colonial discourse......Page 84
5 Postcolonialism and feminism......Page 91
Imperialist feminisms: woman (in)difference......Page 92
Gendered subalterns: the (Other) woman in the attic......Page 98
Conflicting loyalties: brothers v. sisters......Page 103
Between men: rethinking the colonial encounter......Page 108
6 Imagining community: the question of nationalism......Page 112
Good and bad nationalisms......Page 113
Midnight's children: the politics of nationhood......Page 120
A derivative discourse?......Page 123
7 One world: the vision of postnationalism......Page 132
Globalisation, hybridity, diaspora......Page 133
Mutual transformations......Page 139
Postnational utopias: toward an ethics of hybridity......Page 146
8 Postcolonial literatures......Page 151
Textual politics......Page 152
Postcolonial texts, anti-colonial politics......Page 164
The meta-narrative of colonialism......Page 177
The end of colonialism......Page 180
Bibliography......Page 187
Index......Page 199