Postcolonial Theory (eBook)

A Critical Introduction: Second Edition

Leela Gandhi (Autor)

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2019
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54856-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Leela Gandhi’s Postcolonial Theory is a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms and its intellectual context. The revised edition of this classic work reaffirms its status as a useful starting point for readers new to the field and a provocative account that opens up possibilities for debate.

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Published twenty years ago, Leela Gandhi's Postcolonial Theory was a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms that set its intellectual context alongside poststructuralism, postmodernism, Marxism, and feminism. Gandhi examined the contributions of major thinkers such as Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and the subaltern historians. The book pointed to postcolonialism's relationship with earlier anticolonial thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and M. K. Gandhi and explained pertinent concepts and schools of thought-hybridity, Orientalism, humanism, Marxist dialectics, diaspora, nationalism, gendered subalternity, globalization, and postcolonial feminism.The revised edition of this classic work reaffirms its status as a useful starting point for readers new to the field and as a provocative account that opens up possibilities for debate. It includes substantial additions: A new preface and epilogue reposition postcolonial studies within evolving intellectual contexts and take stock of important critical developments. Gandhi examines recent alliances with critical race theory and Africanist postcolonialism, considers challenges from postsecular and postcritical perspectives, and takes into account the ontological, environmental, affective, and ethical turns in the changed landscape of critical theory. She describes what is enduring in postcolonial thinking-as a critical perspective within the academy and as an attitude to the world that extends beyond the discipline of postcolonial studies.

Autor

Leela Gandhi is John Hawkes Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University. She is author of Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship (2006) and The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900-1955 (2014).

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First Edition1. After Colonialism2. Thinking Otherwise: A Brief Intellectual History3. Postcolonialism and the New Humanities4. Edward Said and His Critics5. Postcolonialism and Feminism6. Imagining Community: The Question of Nationalism7. One World: The Vision of Postnationalism8. Postcolonial Literatures9. The Limits of Postcolonial TheoryEpilogue: If This Were a Manifesto for Postcolonial ThinkingBibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.1.2019
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54856-7 / 0231548567
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54856-4 / 9780231548564