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Postcolonial theory: a critical introduction / Gandhi, Leela (1966)
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Postcolonial theory: a critical introduction
Tytuł oryginału
Postcolonial theory
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New York: Columbia University Press, 1998
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9780231112734
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Contents 6
Acknowledgments 8
Preface 9
1. After colonialism 12
The colonial aftermath 16
Postcolonial re-membering 20
Gandhi and Fanon: the slave's recovery 28
2. Thinking otherwise: a brief intellectual history 34
Marxism, poststructuralism and the problem of humanism 34
What is Enlightenment? 41
Descartes' error 45
Nietzsche's genealogy 48
3. Postcolonialism and the new humanities 53
Provincialising Europe 53
Power, knowledge and the humanities 56
Oppositional criticism and the new humanities 63
The world and the book 65
The postcolonial intellectual 69
4. Edward Said and his critics 75
Enter Orientalism 75
The Said phenomenon 79
Rethinking colonial discourse 85
5. Postcolonialism and feminism 92
Imperialist feminisms: woman (in)difference 93
Gendered subalterns: the (Other) woman in the attic 99
Conflicting loyalties: brothers v. sisters 104
Between men: rethinking the colonial encounter 109
6. Imagining community: the question of nationalism 113
Good and bad nationalisms 114
Midnight's children: the politics of nationhood 121
A derivative discourse? 124
7. One world: the vision of postnationalism 133
Globalisation, hybridity, diaspora 134
Mutual transformations 140
Postnational utopias: toward an ethics of hybridity 147
8. Postcolonial literatures 152
Textual politics 153
Postcolonial texts, anti-colonial politics 165
9. The limits of postcolonial theory 178
The meta-narrative of colonialism 178
The end of colonialism 181
Bibliography 188
Index 200
Acknowledgments 8
Preface 9
1. After colonialism 12
The colonial aftermath 16
Postcolonial re-membering 20
Gandhi and Fanon: the slave's recovery 28
2. Thinking otherwise: a brief intellectual history 34
Marxism, poststructuralism and the problem of humanism 34
What is Enlightenment? 41
Descartes' error 45
Nietzsche's genealogy 48
3. Postcolonialism and the new humanities 53
Provincialising Europe 53
Power, knowledge and the humanities 56
Oppositional criticism and the new humanities 63
The world and the book 65
The postcolonial intellectual 69
4. Edward Said and his critics 75
Enter Orientalism 75
The Said phenomenon 79
Rethinking colonial discourse 85
5. Postcolonialism and feminism 92
Imperialist feminisms: woman (in)difference 93
Gendered subalterns: the (Other) woman in the attic 99
Conflicting loyalties: brothers v. sisters 104
Between men: rethinking the colonial encounter 109
6. Imagining community: the question of nationalism 113
Good and bad nationalisms 114
Midnight's children: the politics of nationhood 121
A derivative discourse? 124
7. One world: the vision of postnationalism 133
Globalisation, hybridity, diaspora 134
Mutual transformations 140
Postnational utopias: toward an ethics of hybridity 147
8. Postcolonial literatures 152
Textual politics 153
Postcolonial texts, anti-colonial politics 165
9. The limits of postcolonial theory 178
The meta-narrative of colonialism 178
The end of colonialism 181
Bibliography 188
Index 200