Postcolonial theory : a critical introduction / Leela Gandhi.
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Edinburgh University Press,
©1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1. After colonialism ; The colonial aftermath ; Postcolonial re-membering ; Gandhi and Fanon: The slave's recovery
- 2. Thinking otherwise: A brief intellectual history ; Marxism, poststructuralism and the problem of humanism ; What is enlightenment?
- Descartes' error
- Nietzsche's genealogy
- 3. Postcolonialism and the new humanities ; Provincialising Europe ; Power, knowledge and the humanities ; Oppositional criticism and the new humanities ; The world and the book ; The postcolonial intellectual
- 4. Edward Said and his critics ; Enter orientalism ; The Said phenomenon ; Rethinking colonial discourse
- 5. Postcolonialism and feminism ; Imperialist feminisms: Woman (in)difference ; Gendered subalterns: The (other) woman in the attic ; Conflicting loyalties: Brothers v. sisters ; Between men: Rethinking the colonial encounter
- 6. Imagining community: The question of nationalism ; Good and bad nationalisms ; Midnight's children: The politics of nationhood ; A derivative discourse?
- 7. One world: The vision of postnationalism ; Globalisation, hybridity, diaspora ; Mutual transformations ; Postnational utopias: Toward and ethics of hybridity
- 8. Postcolonial literatures ; Textual politics ; Postcolonial texts, anti-colonial politics
- 9. The limits of postcolonial theory ; The meta-narrative of colonialism ; The end of colonialism
- Bibliography
- Index.