Pre-occupation of Postcolonial Studies

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).

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 1At the Margins of Postcolonial Studies: Part 1 / Kalpana Sheshadri-Crooks 3At the Margins of Postcolonial Studies: Part 2 / Fawzia Afzal-Khan 241. The Occupation of Postcolonial Studies: Knowledge and Institutional Politics Postmodernism and the Rest of the World / R. Radhakrishnan 37Une Pratique Sauvage: Postcolonial Belatedness and Cultural Politics / Ali Behdad 71(Post)Occidentalism, (Post)Coloniality, and (Post)Subaltern Rationality / Walter Mignolo 86Borders and Bridges: Seeking Connections between Things / Ngugi Wa Thiongo 119Notes on the "Post-Colonial" / Ella Shohat 126DetermiNation: Postcolonialism, Poststructuralism, and the Problem of Ideology / Neil Larsen 140Secularism, Elitism, Progress, and Other Transgressions: On Edward Said's "Voyage In" / Bruce Robbins 1572. The Preoccupations of Postcolonial Studies: Modernity, Sexuality, Nation Street Theater in Pakistani Punjab: The Case of Ajoka, Lok Rehs, and the (So-Called) Woman Question / Fawzia Afzal-Khan 171Beyond the Hysterectomies Scandal: Women, the Institution, the Family, and State in India / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 200The Colonial Drag: Zionism, Gender, and Mimicry / Daniel Boyarin 234Postcolonial Literature in a Neocolonial World: Modern Arabic Culture and the End of Modernity / Saree Makdisi 266Self-Othering: A Postcolonial Discourse on Cinematic First Contacts / Hamid Naficy 292The "Post-Colonial" Colony: Time, Space, and Bodies in Palestine/Israel / Joseph Massad 311Postcolonial Theory in an American Context: A Reading of Martin Delany's Blake / Timothy Powell 347Postscript Surviving Theory: A Conversation with Homi K. Bhabha / Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks 369Works Cited 381Contributors 403Index 407Permissions 413

“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 En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives