Postcolonial Studies Dictionary

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Av Pramod K. Nayar, India) Nayar, Pramod K. (University of Hyderabad, Pramod K Nayar

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This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory. Features a brief introduction to postcolonial theory and a list of suggested further reading that includes the texts in which many of these terms originatedEach entry includes the origins of the term, where traceable; a detailed explanation of its perceived meaning; and examples of the term’s use in literary-cultural textsIncorporates terms and concepts from multiple disciplines, including anthropology, literary studies, science, economics, globalization studies, politics, and philosophyProvides an ideal companion text to the forthcoming Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology, which is also edited by Pramod K. Nayar, a highly-respected authority in the field

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Utgivningsdatum2015-06-05
Mått163 x 236 x 18 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN9781118781050

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Pramod K. Nayar teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India. His books in postcolonial studies include Frantz Fanon (2014), Colonial Voices: The Discourses of Empire (Wiley, 2012) Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2010), and Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction (2008). He is also the editor of the 5-volume Women in Colonial India: Historical Documents and Sources (2013). Forthcoming works include Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology (Wiley) and a book on Human Rights and Literature.

Lits of terms viAcknowledgements ixPreface xDictionary 1References 170Termsaboriginal 1abrogation 2Adivasi 3Afro-Europe 4agency 5alterity 6ambivalence 8anthropology (colonial) 9apartheid 11appropriation 12archive (colonial) 13arithmetic (colonial) 14assimilado 15barbarian/barbaric 16Black Atlantic 17black consciousness 19cannibal 21captivity narratives 22Carib 23cartography 23catachresis 25citizenship (cultural) 26citizenship (ecological) 27census 27centre and margin 28chutneyfication 29colony/colonialism 30colonial discourse 32Commonwealth Literature 34comprador colonialism 35conquistador 36contrapuntal reading 36cosmopolitanism 37cosmopolitanism(vernacular) 38Creole/creolization 39cultural imperialism 41Dalit 43Dark Continent 44decolonization 45dependency complex 47diaspora 48discovery 51dislocation/displacement 52double consciousness 52e-Empire 55ecological ethnicity 55ecological imperialism 57education (colonial) 57effeminacy 59Empire – new figurations of 60Enlightenment (European) 61environmentalism 62epidermalization 64epistemic violence 65eroticization 66essentialism 67ethnicity 69ethnocide 70ethnography (colonial) 70ethnopsychiatry (colonial) 71Eurocentrism 73evangelicalism (colonial) 74exile 75exoticism 76exploitation colony 77exploration (colonial) 77feminism (Islamic) 79fetish/phobia 80filiation/affiliation 80First World 81Fourth World 81geographical morality 83geography 83globe 85globalization 85hegemony 87homonationalism 88humanism (European) 88humanitarianism 90hybridity 91imaginative geography 93imperialism 94indentured labour 95infantilization 95kala pani (‘Black Water’) 97lactification 98liminality 98lusotropicalism 99magical realism 100Manichean allegory 101masculinity (imperial) 102mestizo/a 102mimicry 103miscegenation 104multiculturalism 106national allegory 108nationalism (as discourse) 109native 112Native Informant 112nativism 113Negritude 114neocolonialism 115New World 116Occidentalism 117orality 117Orientalism 118Ornamentalism 120picturesque (as colonialimperial aesthetic) 121postcolonialism 122postcoloniality 124postcolony 125postnational 126primitivism 126provincializing 127race 129refugee 130re-orientalism 131representation (colonial) 132Requerimiento 134reverse colonization 134secularism/post-secularism 136settler colonialism 137situated knowledge 138slavery 139stereotyping 140strategic essentialism 141subaltern 143subjectivity (of Europeans, colonial period) 146subjectivity (of natives, colonial period) 148sublime (as colonial aesthetic) 149syncretism 150terra incognita 152terra nullius 153testimonio 154text/textuality (colonial) 155Third World 156torrid zones 157transculturation 158transnationalism 160tricontinentalism 161tropicality 161universalism 163vernacular 165whiteness/white studies 167World Literature 168worlding 169

"This dictionary is highly recommended for libraries in higher education that offer courses in colonial and post-colonial history and programmes in history or political science. It also has the unique feature of being affordable for students who would like their own copy or for faculty that wish to recommend it for a Languages and literature Reference Reviews textbook supplement at a time when textbook prices are on the rise." (Reference Reviews 2016)