Beginning PostcolonialismDesigned for those studying postcolonialism for the first time, this is an introduction to the major areas of concern. It provides an overview of the emergence of postcolonialism as a discipline and examines many of its important critical writings. In particular, John McLeod demonstrates in practice how many of the ideas and concepts in the subject can be usefully applied when reading texts, as well as inviting students to develop their own views of postcolonialism. |
Contents
From Commonwealth to postcolonial | 6 |
The emergence of Commonwealth literature | 10 |
Frantz Fanon and Edward Said | 17 |
The turn to theory in the 1980s | 23 |
The Empire writes back | 25 |
Postcolonialism at the millennium | 29 |
definitions and dangers | 32 |
Selected reading on what is postcolonialism? | 34 |
Chinua Achebes Anthills of the Savannah | 130 |
Stop and Think | 136 |
Rereading and rewriting English literature | 139 |
Colonialism and the teaching of English literature | 140 |
Colonial contexts | 144 |
Stop and Think | 145 |
Stop and Think | 148 |
Stop and Think | 156 |
Reading colonial discourses | 37 |
Reading Orientalism | 39 |
The shape of Orientalism | 40 |
Stereotypes of the Orient | 44 |
Criticisms of Orientalism | 46 |
Ambivalence and mimicry in colonial discourses | 51 |
Stop and Think | 55 |
reading The Overland Mail | 57 |
Selected reading | 64 |
Nationalist representations | 67 |
forging tradition and history | 68 |
Stop and Think | 72 |
National liberation vs imperialist domination | 75 |
Negritude | 76 |
Stop and Think | 81 |
Frantz Fanon and national culture | 83 |
Nationalism and literature | 90 |
Ngugis A Grain of Wheat | 92 |
Selected reading | 100 |
The nation in question The disenchantment with nationalism | 102 |
a derivative discourse? | 104 |
Stop and Think | 107 |
Nationalism representation and the elite | 108 |
Nationalism race and ethnicity | 110 |
Stop and Think | 113 |
Nationalism gender and sexuality | 114 |
The nation and its margins | 117 |
Stop and Think | 121 |
The problems of using English | 122 |
English in the settled nations | 125 |
Stop and Think | 129 |
a postcolonial text? | 157 |
Stop and Think | 160 |
possibilities and problems | 168 |
Stop and Think | 169 |
Postcolonialism and feminism Some definitions | 172 |
The double colonisation of women | 175 |
Stop and Think | 180 |
Postcolonial critiques of First World feminism | 181 |
Learning the limits of First World feminism | 183 |
Third World women | 187 |
Stop and Think | 190 |
Can the subaltern speak? | 191 |
creative dialogues in postcolonial feminism | 195 |
Representing women in Sally Morgans My Place | 199 |
Selected reading | 203 |
Diaspora Identities | 205 |
from roots to routes | 208 |
Hybrid identities at the inbetween | 216 |
Stop and Think | 221 |
New ethnicities | 222 |
Stop and Think | 226 |
Beryl Gilroys BoySandwich | 232 |
Selected reading | 236 |
Postcolonialism and the critics | 239 |
From Commonwealth to postcolonial and back again? | 240 |
Postcolonialism and neocolonialism | 246 |
Where do we go from here? | 257 |
The Overland Mail footservice to the hills Rudyard Kipling | 259 |
Further reading | 261 |
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