Table Of Contents:

List of figures xvii
Preface xix
Acknowledgements xxi

General Introduction 1(4)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

Introduction to the Second Edition 5(4)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

PART ONE Issues and Debates

Introduction to Part One 9(5)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

The Occasion for Speaking 14(5)

George Lamming

The Economy of Manichean Allegory 19(5)

Abdul R. JanMohamed

Orientalism 24(4)

Edward W. Said

Can the Subaltern Speak? 28(10)

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Signs Taken for Wonders 38(6)

Homi K. Bhabha

Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse 44(7)

Benita Parry

The Scramble for Post-Colonialism 51(6)

Stephen Slemon

Colonialism and Culture 57(5)

Nicholas B. Dirks

The Nature of Things: Arrested Decolonization and Critical Theory 62(4)

Biodun Jeyifo

The Intimacy of Tyranny 66(7)

Achille Mbembe

PART TWO Universality and Difference

Introduction to Part Two 71(2)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

Colonialist Criticism 73(4)

Chinua Achebe

Heroic Ethnocentrism: The Idea of Universality in Literature 77(3)

Charles Larson

Western Mathematics: The Secret Weapon of Cultural Imperialism 80(4)

Alan J. Bishop

Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the `National Allegory' 84(5)

Aijaz Ahmad

The Critique of Eurocentrism 89(6)

Tsenay Serequeberhan

PART THREE Representation and Resistance

Introduction to Part Three 93(2)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

Resistance, Opposition and Representation 95(4)

Edward W. Said

Post-Colonial Literatures and Counter-Discourse 99(3)

Helen Tiffin

Unsettling the Empire: Resistance Theory for the Second World 102(5)

Stephen Slemon

The Rhetoric of English India 107(2)

Sara Suleri

Colonialism, Racism and Representation 109(4)

Robert Stam

Louise Spence

Networks of Resistance 113(6)

Elleke Boehmer

PART FOUR Nationalism

Introduction to Part Four 117(2)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

National Culture 119(4)

Frantz Fanon

Imagined Communities 123(3)

Benedict Anderson

Nationalism as a Problem 126(2)

Partha Chatterjee

The National Longing for Form 128(4)

Timothy Brennan

Dissemination: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation 132(2)

Homi K. Bhabha

What Ish My Nation? 134(5)

David Cairns

Shaun Richards

PART FIVE Hybridity

Introduction to Part Five 137(2)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

Fossil and Psyche 139(4)

Kirsten Holst Petersen

Anna Rutherford

Named for Victoria, Queen of England 143(3)

Chinua Achebe

Of the Marvellous Realism of the Haitians 146(4)

Jacques Stephen Alexis

Marvellous Realism: The Way Out of Negritude 150(2)

Michael Dash

Creolization in Jamaica 152(3)

Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Cultural Diversity and Cultural Differences 155(3)

Homi K. Bhabha

The Cultural Politics of Hybridity 158(7)

Robert Young

PART SIX Indigeneity

Introduction to Part Six 163(2)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

The Myth of Authenticity 165(4)

Gareth Griffiths

Who Can Write as Other? 169(3)

Margery Fee

The Representation of the Indigene 172(4)

Terry Goldie

Postcolonialism, Ideology, and Native American Literature 176(4)

Arnold Krupat

Indigenous Articulations 180(4)

James Clifford

The White Inuit Speaks: Contamination as Literary Strategy 184(7)

Diana Brydon

PART SEVEN Ethnicity

Introduction to Part Seven 189(2)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

Who Is Ethnic? 191(3)

Werner Sollors

Identifying Identity 194(2)

Philip Gleason

No Master Territories 196(3)

Trinh T. Minh-ha

New Ethnicities 199(4)

Stuart Hall

After Whiteness 203(5)

Mike Hill

Towards a New Consciousness 208(5)

Gloria Anzaldua

PART EIGHT Race

Introduction to Part Eight 211(2)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

Race and Racism 213(3)

Tzvetan Todorov

Writing Race 216(3)

Henry Louis Gates

Race, Time and the Revision of Modernity 219(5)

Homi K. Bhabha

The Illusions of Race 224(3)

Kwame Anthony Appiah

There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack 227(3)

Paul Gilroy

Negritude and Nativism 230(5)

Pal Ahluwalia

PART NINE Feminism

Introduction to Part Nine 233(2)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

First Things First: Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature 235(4)

Kirsten Holst Petersen

Decolonizing Culture: Toward a Theory for Postcolonial Women's Texts 239(3)

Ketu H. Katrak

Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses 242(4)

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism 246(4)

Trinh T. Minh-ha

Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition 250(6)

Sara Suleri

Colonizing Bodies and Minds 256(7)

Oyeronke Oyewumi

PART TEN Language

Introduction to Part Ten 261(2)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

The Language of African Literature 263(5)

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

The Politics of Language 268(4)

Chinua Achebe

The Alchemy of English 272(4)

Braj B. Kachru

Language and Spirit 276(1)

Raja Rao

Language and Transformation 277(4)

Bill Ashcroft

Nation Language 281(4)

Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Relexification 285(6)

Chantal Zabus

PART ELEVEN The Body and Performance

Introduction Eleven 289(2)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

The Fact of Blackness 291(4)

Frantz Fanon

In Search of the Lost Body: Redefining the Subject in Caribbean Literature 295(3)

Michael Dash

The Body as Cultural Signifier 298(4)

Russell McDougall

Dance, Movement and Resistance Politics 302(4)

Helen Gilbert

Outlaws of the Text 306(3)

Gillian Whitlock

Resistant Performance 309(4)

Marvin Carlson

On Veiling, Vision and Voyage 313(6)

Reina Lewis

PART TWELVE History

Introduction to Part Twelve 317(2)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

Allegories of Atlas 319(6)

Jose Rabasa

Columbus and the Cannibals 325(4)

Peter Hulme

The Muse of History 329(4)

Derek Walcott

Spatial History 333(3)

Paul Carter

The Limbo Gateway 336(4)

Wilson Harris

Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History 340(7)

Dipesh Chakrabarty

PART THIRTEEN Place

Introduction to Part Thirteen 345(2)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

Writing in Colonial Space 347(4)

Dennis Lee

Naming Place 351(4)

Paul Carter

Decolonizing the Map 355(4)

Graham Huggan

Aboriginal Place 359(5)

Bob Hodge

Vijay Mishra

Indigenous Map Making 364(3)

G. Malcolm Lewis

The Other Side of the Mountain 367(7)

Walter Mignolo

PART FOURTEEN Education

Introduction to Part Fourteen 371(3)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

Minute on Indian Education 374(2)

Thomas Macaulay

The Beginnings of English Literary Study in British India 376(5)

Gauri Viswanathan

Education and Neocolonialism 381(4)

Philip G. Altbach

Ideology in the Classroom: A Case Study in the Teaching of English Literature in Canadian Universities 385(4)

Arun P. Mukherjee

Borders and Bridges 389(4)

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Entrenching English in Trinidad and Tobago 393(6)

Norrel A. London

PART FIFTEEN Production and Consumption

Introduction to Part Fifteen 397(2)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

The Historiography of African Literature Written in English 399(5)

Andre Lefevre

The Book Today in Africa 404(4)

S. I. A. Kotei

Literary Colonialism: Books in the Third World 408(5)

Philip G. Altbach

Soft-Soaping Empire 413(4)

Anne McClintock

Commodities and the Politics of Value 417(4)

Arjun Appadurai

The Postcolonial Exotic 421(7)

Graham Huggan

PART SIXTEEN Diaspora

Introduction to Part Sixteen 425(3)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

Imaginary Homelands 428(7)

Salman Rushdie

Cultural Identity and Diaspora 435(4)

Stuart Hall

The Mind of Winter 439(4)

Edward W. Said

Thinking Through the Concept of Diaspora 443(4)

Avtah Brah

The Diasporic Imaginary: Theorizing the Indian Diaspora 447(4)

Vijay Mishra

Diasporas 451(4)

James Clifford

Passport Photos 455(8)

Amitava Kumar

PART SEVENTEEN Globalization

Introduction Part Seventeen 461(2)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

The Global in the Local 463(5)

Arif Dirlik

Disjunction and Difference 468(5)

Arjun Appadurai

Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality 473(4)

Simon Gikandi

Glocalization 477(4)

Roland Robertson

Imperial Sovereignty 481(4)

Guy Hardt

Antonio Negri

Feminist Solidarity Through Anticapitalist Struggles 485(9)

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

PART EIGHTEEN Environment

Introduction to Part Eighteen 491(3)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

Ecological Imperialism 494(4)

Alfred W. Crosby

Green Imperialism 498(3)

Richard Grove

Trial Statement 501(2)

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Decolonizing Relationships with Nature 503(4)

Val Plumwood

The Beaver as Native and as Colonist 507(4)

Gordon Sayre

Old Orders For New 511(8)

Cary Wolfe

PART NINETEEN The Sacred

Introduction to Part Nineteen 517(2)

Bill Ashcroft

Gareth Griffiths

Helen Tiffin

Conversion, `Tradition' and National Consolidation 519(3)

Gauri Viswanathan

God, Gold, and Gender 522(6)

Laura E. Donaldson

Reclaiming Our Histories 528(3)

William Baldridge

Orientalism and Religion 531(3)

Richard King

Global Conversions 534(3)

Peter Van der Veer

Postcolonializing Biblical Interpretation 537(4)

R. S. Sugirtharajah
Bibliography 541(35)
Index 576