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✍ Scribed by Nayar, Pramod K

• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 317
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Description Postcolonial writing originating from Africa, Asia, andSouth America in the mid-twentieth century has constantly examined,negotiated with, and reacted to the overarching experience ofcolonial subjugation. This book, in its seven thematicallyorganized chapters, lucidly elucidates complex concepts andformulations of postcolonial literature and theory and criticallyanalyses their various dimensions with relevant examples fromcontemporary postcolonial writing. The book would also appeal tothe general reader aiming to gain a thorough understanding of thefundamental themes and discourses of postcolonial literature. Colonialism, Postcoloniality, Postcolonialism History Nation Gender Queer Hybridity, Diaspora, Cosmopolitanism Form Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English,University of Hyderabad. His most recent publications include English Writing and India, 1600-1920: Colonizing Aesthetics (2008), The Great Uprising: India, 1857 (2007), and Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics (2006).

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
List of Boxes......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Colonialism, Imperialism, Neocolonialism......Page 22
Postcoloniality......Page 27
From Commonwealth to Postcolonial......Page 33
Postcolonialism, Postcolonial Theory......Page 38
Notes......Page 54
Chapter 2: History......Page 57
Interrogating Colonialism......Page 58
Cultural Alienation......Page 59
Nationalism......Page 62
The Making of Mimic Men......Page 66
Retrieving History......Page 71
White Histories......Page 74
The other Rights/Writes Histories......Page 76
Race, Space, Memory......Page 81
Representation, Fiction, Identity......Page 85
Notes......Page 87
Chapter 3: Nation......Page 89
Constructing the Nation......Page 91
Locality, Community, Identity......Page 92
Imagi-Nations......Page 98
Cultural Identity......Page 104
Nativism......Page 108
Writing Aboriginal......Page 110
Religion and Spirituality......Page 117
Postcolonial Subalternization......Page 120
Continuing Colonialism?......Page 124
Postcolonial Protest......Page 126
Notes......Page 134
Chapter 4: Gender......Page 137
Nationalism, National Movements, and Women......Page 142
Gendered Traditions and Modernities......Page 145
Cultural Identity, Community, and Gender......Page 148
Diasporas and Women......Page 150
Marriage and the Family......Page 152
‘Motherism’......Page 154
Motherhood......Page 155
Mother Tongue......Page 160
Patriarchy, Fundamentalism, War......Page 162
Body, Desire, Sexuality......Page 169
Subaltern Women and Life Writing......Page 171
Spirituality......Page 173
Notes......Page 176
Chapter 5: Queer......Page 179
Race, Ethnicity, Sexuality......Page 182
Family, Relationships, and the Queer......Page 189
Queer Diasporas and Globalizations......Page 194
Queering National, Ethnic, and Cultural Identity......Page 198
Queering the Border......Page 203
Notes......Page 205
Chapter 6: Hybridity, Diaspora, Cosmopolitanism......Page 207
Nostalgia, Memory, ‘Imaginary Homelands’......Page 212
‘Home’ and the Poetics of ‘Return'......Page 213
Dislocation, Re-Location, Memo-Realization......Page 214
Hybridities and New Identities......Page 218
Double Consciousness......Page 219
Multiple Identities and Solidarities......Page 222
Cultural Fundamentalisms and Ethnic Assertion......Page 225
Globalization and Cosmopolitanism......Page 229
Transnational Solidarity and Ethics......Page 230
Cosmopolitan Cities, Migrant Spaces, and Globalization......Page 233
Notes......Page 238
Chapter 7: Form......Page 241
Orality and Literature......Page 242
Folk, Myth, History......Page 249
Magic Realism......Page 256
Decanonization......Page 260
Postcolonial English......Page 266
Notes......Page 276
Bibliography......Page 280
Author Index......Page 312
Subject Index......Page 314
About the Author......Page 317