A Companion to Postcolonial Studies

Schwarz, Henry / Ray, Sangeeta (Herausgeber)

Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies

1. Auflage Oktober 2004
636 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-631-20663-7

John Wiley & Sons

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This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and
are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of
the globe from 1492 to 1947.

* Ranges widely over the major themes, regions, theories and
practices of postcolonial study

* Presents original essays by the leading proponents of
postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and
West Asia

* Provides clear introductions to the major social and political
movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible
histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions
affected by European colonization

* Features introductory essays on the major thinkers and
intellectual schools that have informed strategies of national
liberation worldwide

* Offers an incisive summary of the long history and theory of
modern European colonization in local detail and global scale

Introduction.

Part I: Historical And Theoretical Issues.

Part II: Generic Transformations And Mediations: The Local And
The Global.

Part III: The Inventiveness Of Theory.

Part IV: Cultural Studies And Postcolonialism.

After Postcolonialism.

Bibliography.

Index.

"The present volume is one of the largest and most intellectually ambitious collections of essays to emerge in the past decade. Highly recommended, upper-division undergraduates and above in social science and humanities." (Choice)

Henry Schwarz is Associate Professor of English at
Georgetown University, He is author of Writing Cultural History in
Colonial and Postcolonial India (1997) and co-editor of Reading the
Shape of the World: Toward an International Cultural Studies (1996)
and Contributions to Bengal Studies: An International and
Interdisciplinary Approach (1998). He has published in literary
theory, cultural studies, Indian literature, and English
imperialism. He is currently US Regional Editor of Interventions:
International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

Sangeeta Ray is currently the Director of the Asian
American Studies program at the University of Maryland as well as
Associate Professor in the English Department. She has published
extensively on feminist postcolonial issues. She is author of
En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial
Narratives (1999).