Postcolonial Studies

Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, The University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary (Wiley-Blackwell 2015), the 5-volume edited collection Women in Colonial India: Historical Documents and Sources (2014), Frantz Fanon (2013), Posthumanism (Polity 2013), Colonial Voices: The Discourses of Empire (Wiley-Blackwell 2012), Writing Wrongs: The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India (2012), The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell 2010), and An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures (Wiley-Blackwell 2010).

• Preface xAcknowledgments xiIntroduction 1Part 1 Framing the Postcolonial 131 The Fact of Blackness 15Frantz Fanon2 Introduction to Orientalism 33Edward Said3 Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse 53Homi K. Bhabha4 Scattered Speculations on the Subaltern and the Popular 60Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak5 Third]World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism 71Fredric Jameson6 Jameson’s Rhetoric of Otherness and the “National Allegory” 91Aijaz Ahmad7 Re-Orientalism: The Perpetration and Development of Orientalism by Orientals 110Lisa Lau8 Postcolonial Remains 125Robert JC Young9 Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change 144Dipesh ChakrabartyPart 2 The Question of History and Historical Subjects 15910 Historylessness: Australia as a Settler Colonial Collective 161Lorenzo Veracini11 Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization 175Fernando Coronil12 History Without a Cause? Grand Narratives, World History, and the Postcolonial Dilemma 193Barbara Weinstein13 “Africa As an Alien Future”: The Middle Passage, Afrofuturism, and Postcolonial Waterworlds 211Ruth MayerPart 3 Language, Literacy, Education 22314 On English from India: Prepositions to Post-Positions 225K. Narayana Chandran15 Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want from Writing? 239Scott Richard Lyons16 Histories of Publishing under Apartheid: Oxford University Press in South Africa 258Caroline Davis17 Re-ethicizing the Classroom: Pedagogy, the Public Sphere, and the Postcolonial Condition 281Ajay HeblePart 4 Nation, Space, Identity 29518 Whiteness in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe: The Time of The Gypsies, The End of Race 297Anikó Imre19 Asian Canadian Futures: Diasporic Passages and the Routes of Indenture 316Lily Cho20 Ireland, Empire and Utopia: Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse 331Eóin Flannery21 Narrative Agency and Thinking about Conflicts 354Nandana Dutta22 The Ballad of the Sad Café: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the Post/colonial Question  370Rebecca L. SteinPart 5 Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism 38523 Cosmopolitanism and the De-colonial Option 387Walter D. Mignolo24 Solidarity and Spheres of Culture: The Cosmopolitan and the Postcolonial 405Vivienne Jabri25 Literature/Identity: Transnationalism, Narrative and Representation 418Arif Dirlik26 The Limits of Cultural Hybridity: On Ritual Monsters, Poetic Licence and Contested Postcolonial Purifications 438Pnina WerbnerPart 6 Gender and Sexuality 45727 Veils and Sales:Muslims and the Spaces of Postcolonial Fashion Retail 459Reina Lewis28 “Patriarchal Colonialism” and Indigenism: Implications for Native Feminist Spirituality and Native Womanism 473M. A. Jaimes Guerrero29 Sex, Violence and History in the Lives of Idi Amin: Postcolonial Masculinity as Masquerade 483Mark Leopold30 Empire, Desire and Violence: A Queer Transnational Feminist Reading of The Prisoner ‘Abuse’ in Abu Ghraib and the Question of ‘Gender Equality’ 495Melanie Richter]MontpetitPart 7 Science, Environment, Development 51331 Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor 515Rob Nixon32 Postcolonial and Feminist Philosophies of Science and Technology: Convergences and Dissonances 533Sandra Harding33 The Myth of Isolates: Ecosystem Ecologies in the Nuclear Pacific 553Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey34 Bio-Prospecting or Bio-Piracy: Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity in a Colonial and Postcolonial Context 570John MersonPart 8 Globalization, Digital Cultures, Identity 58535 Global Primordialities: Virtual Identity Politics in Online Hindutva and Online Dalit Discourse 587Rohit Chopra36 Hidden Sides of the Credit Economy: Emotions, Outsourcing, and Indian Call Centers 602Winifred R. Poster37 eEmpires 627Rita Raley38 The Woman on the Other Side of the Wall: Archiving the Otherwise in Postcolonial Digital Archives 652Elizabeth A. PovinelliIndex 000