Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader by Padmini Mongia Hardcover Book

Description: Contemporary Postcolonial Theory by Padmini Mongia There is a crisis in contemporary postcolonial theory: while an enormous body of challenging research has been produced under its auspices, severely critical questions about the validity and usefulness of this theory have also been raised. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description There is a crisis in contemporary postcolonial theory: while an enormous body of challenging research has been produced under its auspices, severely critical questions about the validity and usefulness of this theory have also been raised. This Reader is positioned at the juncture where it can address these contestations. It makes available some of the classics of the field; engages with the issues raised by contemporary practitioners; but also offers several of the arguments that strongly critique postcolonial theory. Although postcolonial theory purports to be inter-disciplinary and frequently anti-foundationalist, traces of disciplinary formations and linearity have continued to haunt its articulations. This Reader, on the other hand, offers a uniquely inter-disciplinary mapping. It is concerned with three main areas: definitional problems and contests including the current challenges to postcolonial theory; the disciplining of knowledge, where the multiple resonances of the word disciplining are all engaged; and the location of practice where the relations between intellectual practice and historical conditions are explored. Finally, since the guiding principle of this Reader is simultaneous attention to the enabling and constraining mechanisms of historical realities and institutional practices, the commentary problematizes the writing of histories, the formations of canons, and indeed the production of Readers. Author Biography Mongia, Padmini Table of Contents Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART ONE: SHIFTING TERRAINS, 1. From Orientalism, 2. The Other Question, 3. Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?, 4. Unsettling the Empire: Resistance Theory for the Second World, 5. Resistance Theory/Theorizing Resistance, or Two Cheers for Nativism, 6. Cultural Identity and Diaspora, 7. Where Have All the Natives Gone?, PART TWO: DISCIPLINING KNOWLEDGE, 8. The Race for Theory, 9. The Nature of Things: Arrested Decolonization and Critical Theory, 10. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses, 11. Poststructuralism, Marginality, Postcoloniality and Value, 12. Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for "Indian" Pasts?, 13. "The Whisper Wakes, the Shudder Plays": "Race," Nation and Ethnic Absolutism, PART THREE: LOCATING PRACTICE, 14. The Politics of Literary Postcoloniality, 15. The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism, 16. Notes on the Post-Colonial, 17. Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition, 18. Crosscurrents, Crosstalk: Race, "Postcoloniality" and the Politics of Location, 19. Rehearsals of Liberation: Contemporary Postcolonial Discourse and the New South Africa, Bibliography, Index Details ISBN0367717794 Pages 416 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2021 ISBN-10 0367717794 ISBN-13 9780367717797 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2021-03-31 UK Release Date 2021-03-31 Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-03-31 NZ Release Date 2021-03-31 Author Padmini Mongia Subtitle A Reader Edited by Padmini Mongia Alternative 9780340652886 DEWEY 809.04 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139866999;

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