After colonialism: imperial histories and postcolonial displacements : imperial histories and postcolonial displacements /

After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin Americ...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Prakash, Gyan
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, N.J. :
Publication Dates: [1995]
©1995
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: Course Book.
Series: Princeton studies in culture/power/history
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400821440
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Summary: After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America to Europe--the essays in this volume reexamine colonialism and its aftermath. Leading literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists engage with recent theories and perspectives in their specific studies, showing the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world and offering postcolonial reflections on the effects and experience of empire. The contributions cross historical analysis of texts with textual examination of historical records and situate metropolitan cultural practices in engagements with non-metropolitan locations. Interdisciplinarity here means exploring and realigning disciplinary boundaries. Contributors to After Colonialism include Edward Said, Steven Feierman, Joan Dayan, Ruth Phillips, Anthony Pagden, Leonard Bluss , Gauri Viswanathan, Zachary Lockman, Jorge Klor de Alva, Irene Silverblatt, Emily Apter, and Homi Bhabha.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9781400821440
Index Number: JV105
CLC: D033.3
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
Introduction: After Colonialism /
Chapter 1. Secular Interpretation, the Geographical Element, and the Methodology of Imperialism /
Chapter 2. Africa in History: The End of Universal Narratives /
Chapter 3. Haiti, History, and the Gods /
Chapter 4. Why Not Tourist Art? Significant Silences in Native American Museum Representations /
Chapter 5. The Effacement of Difference: Colonialism and the Origins of Nationalism in Diderot and Herder /
Chapter 6. Retribution and Remorse: The Interaction between the Administration and the Protestant Mission in Early Colonial Formosa /
Chapter 7. Coping with (Civil) Death: The Christian Convert s Rights of Passage in Colonial India /
Chapter 8. Exclusion and Solidarity: Labor Zionism and Arab Workers in Palestine, 1897 1929 /
Chapter 9. The Postcolonization of the (Latin) American Experience: A Reconsideration of "Colonialism," "Postcolonialism," and "Mestizaje" /
Chapter 10. Becoming Indian in the Central Andes of Seventeenth-Century Peru /
Chapter 11. Ethnographic Travesties: Colonial Realism, French Feminism, and the Case of Elissa Rha s /
Chapter 12. In a Spirit of Calm Violence /
Notes on the Contributors --
Index.