The most comprehensive collection of postcolonial writing theory and criticism, this third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 125 extracts from key works in the field.

Leading, as well as lesser-known figures in the fields of writing, theory and criticism contribute to this inspiring body of work that includes sections on nationalism, hybridity, diaspora and globalisation. As in the first two editions, this new edition of The Postcolonial Studies Reader ranges as widely as possible to reflect the remarkable diversity of work in the discipline and the vibrancy of anti-imperialist and decolonising writing both within and without the metropolitan centres.

This volume includes new work in the field over the decade and a half since the second edition was published. Covering more debates, topics and critics than any comparable book in its field The Postcolonial Studies Reader provides the ideal starting point for students and issues a potent challenge to the ways in which we think and write about literature and culture.

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

General Introduction

Introduction to the Second Edition

Introduction to the Third Edition

PART I: Origins

Introduction

1. Thomas Macaulay

Minute on Indian Education

2. Raja Rao

Language and Spirit

3. George Lamming

The Occasion for Speaking

4. Edward W. Said

Orientalism

5. Ato Quayson

Introduction: Postcolonial Literature in a Changing Historical Frame

PART II: Issues and Debates

Introduction

6. Gayatri Spivak

Can the Subaltern Speak?

7. Homi K. Bhabha

Signs Taken for Wonders

8. Achille Mbembe and Libby Meintjes

Necropolitics

9. Ann Laura Stoler

On Degrees of Imperial Sovereignty

10. Christopher Taylor

Postcolonial Studies and the Specter of Misplaced Polemics against Postcolonial Theory: A Review of the Chibber Debate

11. Bill Ashcroft

Including China: Bei Dao, Resistance and the Imperial State

Part III: Representation and Resistance

Introduction

12. Ken Saro-Wiwa

Trial Statement

13. Helen Tiffin

Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse

14. Ranajit Guha

Subaltern Studies: Projects for Our Time and Their Convergence

15. María do Mar Castro Varela and Carolina Tamayo Rojas

Epistemicide, Postcolonial Resistance and the State

16. Anna Bernard

Cultural Activism as Resource: Pedagogies of Resistance and Solidarity

17. Nobukhosi Ngwenya and Bettina von Lieres

Silent Citizens and Resistant Texts: Reading Hidden Narratives

PART IV: Nationalism

Introduction

18. Frantz Fanon

On National Culture

19. Partha Chatterjee

Nationalism as a Problem

20. Homi K. Bhabha

Dissemination: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation

21. Timothy Brennan

The National Longing for Form

22. David Cairns and Shaun Richards

What Ish My Nation?

23. Ephraim Nimni

Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Self-Determination: A Paradigm Shift

PART V: Hybridity

Introduction

24. Edward Kamu Braithwaite

Creolization in Jamaica

25. Michael Dash

Marvellous Realism: The Way Out of Négritude

26. Homi K. Bhabha

Cultural Diversity and Cultural Differences

27. Robert Young

The Cultural Politics of Hybridity

28. Anjali Prabhu

Interrogating Hybridity

29. Deepika Bahri

Hybridity, Redux

Part VI: Indigeneity

Introduction

30. Gareth Griffiths

The Myth of Authenticity

31. Margery Fee

Who Can Write as Other?

32. Diana Brydon

Contamination as Literary Strategy

33. James Clifford

Indigenous Articulations

34. Paul Sharrad

Indigenous Transnational

35. Geoff Rodoreda

The Mabo Turn

Part VII: Race and Ethnicity

Introduction

36. Henty Louis Gates

Writing Race

37. Kwame Anthony Appiah

The Illusions of Race

38. Stuart Hall

New Ethnicities

39. Philip Gleason

Identifying Identity

40. Howard Winant

Race, Ethnicity and Social Science

41. Julian Go

Postcolonial Possibilities for the Sociology of Race

Part VIII: Whiteness

Introduction

42. Frantz Fanon

The Fact of Blackness

43. Paul Gilroy

Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack

44. Richard Dyer

White

45. Toni Morrison

When Whiteness Became Ideology

46. AnnLouise Keating

Interrogating Whiteness

47. Anne Brewster

Critical Whiteness Studies

48. Mike Hill

Whiteness, Writing, and Other Ordinary Terrors

Part IX: Gender, Sexuality and Identity

Introduction

49. Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses

50. Kirsten Holst Petersen

First Things First: Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature

51. Ketu H. Katrak

Decolonizing Culture: Toward a Theory for Post-Colonial Women’s Texts

52. Sara Suleri

Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition

53. Oyerónké Oyewumí

Colonizing Bodies and Minds

54. Golnaz Golnaraghi and Kelly Dye

Discourses of Contradiction: A Postcolonial Analysis of Muslim Women and the Veil

55. Chantal Zabus and Samir Kumar Das

Hijras, Sangomas, and Their Translects: Trans(lat)ing India and South Africa

Part X: Language

Introduction

56. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

The Language of African Literature

57. Chinua Achebe

The Politics of Language

58. Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Nation Language

59. Braj B. Kachru

The Alchemy of English

60. Bill Ashcroft

Language and Transformation

61. Nicholas G. Faraclas and Sally J. Delgado

Post-Colonial Linguistics and Post-Creole Creolistics

Part XI: Performance

Introduction

62. Reina Lewis

On Veiling, Vision and Voyage

63. Daniel L. Selden

‘Our Films, their Films’: Postcolonial Critique of the Cinematic Apparatus

64. Eugene Williams

"The Anancy Technique", A Gateway to Postcolonial Performance

65. Aparna Dharwadker

The Really Poor Theatre: Postcolonial Economies of Performance

66. Gareth Griffiths

“Pictures on the Wall, Music in the Air”: Popular Culture Forms, Human Rights Agitation and Fiction in Africa

67. Helen Gilbert

Indigenous Festivals in the Pacific: Cultural Renewal, Decolonization and Nation-Building

Part XII: History

Introduction

68. Wilson Harris

The Limbo Gateway

69. Peter Hulme

Columbus and the Cannibals

70. Dipesh Chakrabarty

Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History

71. Ashish Nandy

History’s Forgotten Doubles

72. Ato Quayson

The Sighs of History: Postcolonial Debris and the Question of (Literary) History

73. Laura Doyle

Inter-Imperiality: Dialectics in a Postcolonial World History

PART XIII: Place

Introduction

74. José Rabasa

Allegories of Atlas

75. Graham Huggan

Decolonizing the Map

76. Paul Carter

Naming Place

77. G. Malcolm Lewis

Indigenous Map Making

78. Bill Ashcroft

Urbanism, Mobility and Bombay: Reading the Postcolonial City

79. Gareth Griffiths

Postcolonialism and Travel Writing

Part XIV: Production and Consumption

Introduction

80. Arjun Appadurai

Commodities and the Politics of Value

81. Anne McClintock

Soft-Soaping Empire

82. Graham Huggan

Re-Evaluating the Postcolonial Exotic

83. Sarah Brouillette

Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace

84. Paula Morris

‘The Leftovers of Empire’: Commonwealth writers and the Booker Prize

85. Hayley Toth

Reading in the Global Literary Marketplace

Part XV: Diaspora, Refugees and Migration

Introduction

86. Stuart Hall

Cultural Identity and Diaspora

87. Avtah Brah

Thinking through the Concept of Diaspora

88. Ahmed Gamal

The Global and the Postcolonial in Post-Migratory Literature

89. Susan P. Mains

Commentary, Postcolonial Migrations

90. Mike Phillips

Postcolonial Endgame

91. Claire Gallien

Refugee Literature: What Postcolonial Theory Has to Say

Part XVI: Globalization

Introduction

92. Roland Robertson

Glocalization

93. Arjun Apparudai

Disjunction and Difference

94. Simon Gikandi

Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality

95. Ina Kerner

Postcolonial Theories as Global Critical Theories

96. Sankaran Krishna

Globalization and Postcolonialism: Hegemony and Resistance in the Twenty-First Century

Part XVII: Decoloniality

Introduction

97. Gurminder K. Bhambra

Postcolonial and Decolonial Dialogues

98. Aníbal Quijano

Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality

99. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Decoloniality as the Future of Africa

100. Ramón Grosfoguel

The Epistemic Decolonial Turn

101. Walter D. Mignolo

Coloniality is Far from Over, and So Must Be Decoloniality

102. Catherine Walsh

‘Other’ Knowledges, ‘Other’ Critiques: Reflections on the Politics and Practices of Philosophy and Decoloniality in the ‘Other’ America

Part XVIII: Environment and Climate

Introduction

103. Alfred W. Crosby

Ecological Imperialism

104. Val Plumwood

Decolonizing Relationships with Nature

105. Arundhati Roy

The Greater Common Good

105. Russell McDougall, John C. Ryan and Pauline Reynolds

Climate Change as Critical Reading Practice

107. Rob Nixon

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

108. Dipesh Chakrabarty

The Human and The Anthropocene

Part XIX: Animals and Speciesism

Introduction

109. Philip Armstrong

The Postcolonial Animal

110. Marjorie Spiegel

The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery

111. Erica Fudge

Animal

112. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin

Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment

113. J.M. Coetzee

The Lives of Animals

114. Freya Mathews

The Anguish of Wildlife Ethics

Part XX: Postcolonial Science

Introduction

115. Alan J. Bishop

Western Mathematics: The Secret Weapon of Cultural Imperialism

116. Warwick Anderson and Vincanne Adams

Pramoedya’s Chickens: Postcolonial Studies of Technoscience

117. Derek Hook

A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial

118. Kapil Raj

Beyond Postcolonialism . . . and Postpositivism: Circulation and the Global History of Science

119. Suman Seth

Colonial History and Postcolonial Science Studies

120. Angela Willey

A World of Materialisms: Postcolonial Feminist Science Studies and the New Natural

Part XXI: Postcolonial Sacred

Introduction

121. Gauri Viswanathan

Conversion, ‘Tradition’ and National Consolidation

122. Laura E. Donaldson

God, Gold, and Gender

123. William Baldridge

Reclaiming Our Histories

124. Peter van der Veer

Global Conversions

125. Rosa Vasilaki

Between Postcolonialism and Radical Historicism: The Contested Muslim Political Subject

Bibliography

Index