Postcolonial Studies and Beyond
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to map out a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this volume assesses the current state of the field and points toward its most promising new developments. In addressing questions about the definition and relevance of postcolonial scholarship, many of the essays consider its relation to the study of globalization. While some contributors offer broad reflections on the existing two-way influence between postcolonial theory and established university disciplines such as literary criticism and history, others forge ahead into some vital, if nascent, areas for postcolonial research such as media studies, environmental studies, religious studies, and linguistic and semantic analysis.
The contributors represent many of the fields altered by postcolonial studies over the past two decades, including literary studies, history, anthropology, Asian and African studies, and political science. They model diverse applications of postcolonial theory to Latin America, East Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. Postcolonial Studies and Beyond propels the field forward. It showcases scholars coming from intellectual precincts usually considered outside the purview of the postcolonial finding new ways to deploy classic techniques of postcolonial analysis, and scholars strongly associated with postcolonial studies offering substantial critiques designed to challenge the field’s most fundamental assumptions.
Contributors. Tani E. Barlow, Ali Behdad, Daniel Boyarin, Timothy Brennan, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, Laura Chrisman, Jean Comaroff, Frederick Cooper, Vilashini Cooppan, Jed Esty, James Ferguson, Peter Hulme, Suvir Kaul, Neil Lazarus, Ania Loomba, Florencia E. Mallon, Nivedita Menon, Rob Nixon, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, David Scott, Ella Shohat, Kelwyn Sole, Robert Stam, Rebecca L. Stein
From the Back Cover
“Postcolonial Studies and Beyond will have a place in reviewing and defining the development of postcolonial studies similar to that which Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture had for cultural studies.”—David Lloyd, coeditor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital
“Postcolonial Studies and Beyond will have a place in reviewing and defining the development of postcolonial studies similar to that which Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture had for cultural studies.”-David Lloyd, coeditor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital
Postcolonial Studies and Beyond
Postcolonial Studies and Beyond,Ania, ed. Loomba,Frederick Cooper,Kelwyn Sole,Laura Chrisman,Neil Lazarus,Nivedita Menon,Timothy Brennan,Ania Loomba,Jed Esty,Duke University Press,0822335239,Anthropology - General,Congresses,Emigration & Immigration,Globalization,History - General History,Liberalism,Minority Studies - General,National state,Postcolonialism,Social Science,Sociology,World - General,World - Post-Colonial Studies,Anthropology/Ethnography,Colonization & independence,Literary Studies/Criticism & T,Literary theory,Postcolonial Studies,Social & cultural anthropology
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