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• The triumphant discourse of global feminism : should other women be known? / Marnia Lazreg
• An affair to remember : scripted performances in the "Nasreen affair" / Bishnupriya Ghosh
• Palestinian women and the politics of reception / Therese Saliba and Jeanne Kattan
• Race, gender, and the politics of reception of Latin American testimonios / Eva Paulino Bueno
• Packaging "Huda" : Sha'rawi's memoirs in the United States reception environment / Mohja Kahf
• Identity and community in autobiographies of Algerian women in France / Patricia Geesey
• "Sharp contrasts of all colours" : the legacy of Toru Dutt / Alpana Sharma Knippling
• Grim fairy tales : taking a risk, reading imaginary maps / Jennifer Wenzel
• Trajectories of change : the politics of reading postcolonial women's texts in the undergraduate classroom / Sally McWilliams
• Coming to America : reflections on hair and memory loss / Ella Shohat.

This book explores the problems of reading and writing about women and their texts in an increasingly global context of production and reception. The ten essays contained in this volume examine the reception, both academic and popular of women writers from India, Bangladesh, Egypt, Algeria, Ghana, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala Iraq, Israel and Australia. The essays focus on what happens to these writers' poetry, fiction, biography, autobiography and even to the authors themselves as they move between the third and first worlds.
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• 1. Acknowledgements
• 2. Foreword by Rajeshwari Sundar Rajan
• 3. Introduction 'Southern Postcolonialisms: The Global South and the 'New' Literary Representations' by Sumanyu Satpathy Part I: Canons of the New
• 4. A balance of Stories: The Making of a Discipline by Sue Thomas
• 5. English in an Uneven World: Literature in English Transition by Meenakshi Mukherjee
• 6. The toger that Pounced: The African Writers Series (1962-2003) by Robert Fraser
• 7. Indian Ocean Testimonies: Narrative and Governmentality between South Africa and India by Isabel Hofmeyer
• 8. Rushdie's Indian Literature and Ours by Sumanyu Satpathy
• 9. O.V. Vijayan
• The Echo of the Cupola (Literatures-New Literatures) by Divya Dwivedi Part II: Pedagogies from the Postcolony
• 10. The New English Literatures and the Globalization of Tertiary Education by Dieter Riemenschneider
• 11. Getting In and Out of the Dark Room: Canadian Texts as Neutral Ground for Self-Expression and Empathy in Conflicts by Danielle Schaub
• 12. Pedagogy of Indian Partition Literature in the Light of Trauma Theory by Beerendra Pandey
• 13. Decolonizing the Classroom: In Search of 'New' Pedagogies for 'New' Literatures? by Brinda Bose, Vaibhav I. Parel and Akhil Katyal Part III: Gendered Citizenships in Transnational Times
• 14. Policing Transgression, Disciplining Taslima: State Censorship in Postcolonial Bangladesh by Manmay Zafar
• 15. Bread, Blood, and Bones: Democratic Socialism and Jamaican Drama by Kanika Batra
• 16. 'Between Two Worlds': A Narrative of the Split Self by Kay Souter
• 17. National Mythologies and Secret Histories: Faultlines in the Bark Hut in Some Recent Australian Fiction by Carol Merli
• 18. Bibliography
• 19. Index.
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"Southern Postcolonialisms" is an anthology of critical essays on new literary representations from the Global South that seeks to re-invent/re-orient the ideological, disciplinary, aesthetic, and pedagogical thrust of Postcolonial Studies in accordance with the new and shifting politico-economic realities/transactions between the North and the South, as well as within the Global South, in an era of globalization. Since the emergence of Postcolonial Theory in the 1980s, the shape of the world has changed dramatically. Old Cold War boundaries have shifted in the wake of the collapse of communism, Globalization, on an unprecedented scale, has dramatically changed the meaning of time and space. The rise of the US as a new imperial power has profound implications for the world order. In the South, new emerging markets have challenged the older division of industrial 'first world' and non-industrial 'third world'.In most parts of the world, the academy is struggling to keep up with these developments. One result has been a major transnational turn in the humanities and social sciences. Terms like 'world history', 'globalization', 'glocalization' and 'transnationalism' now dominate academic agendas worldwide. These changing circumstances raise far-reaching questions. What does the new emerging world order mean for established models of postcolonial theory? Is postcolonialism as a field of study being overtaken by models of globalization and transnationalism? What implications do the new configurations in the South have for postcolonial theory? This volume, drawn from a major literary conference at Delhi University, provides a set of perspectives on these questions. With a majority of contributions by scholars from the South, these research articles have a dual focus - they revisit older debates on postcolonial theory, while suggesting new perspectives and directions.
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• Introduction: The papier-mâché parrot
• Writing aporia: aesthetics and politics in the dictator novel of the global South
• Tabula rasa: Juan Manuel de Rosas and the emergence of the dictator as a literary figure
• Fathers of the fatherlands: writing, politics, and literary form at the end of the Latin American "boom"
• Mesaventures: the politics and poetics of the dictator novel in the African postcolony
• The dictator in the corpolony: on the dictator novel in the time of transition
• Afterword: Moving outward and forward.

Where there are dictators, there are novels about dictators. But "dictator novels" do not simply respond to the reality of dictatorship. As this genre has developed and cohered, it has acquired a self-generating force distinct from its historical referents. The dictator novel has become a space in which writers consider the difficulties of national consolidation, explore the role of external and global forces in sustaining dictatorship, and even interrogate the political functions of writing itself. Liteary representations of the dictator, therefore, provide ground for a self-conscious and self-critical theorization of the relationship between writing and politics itself. The Dictator Novel positions novels about dictators as a vital genre in the literatures of the Global South. Primarily identified with Latin America, the dictator novel also has underacknowledged importance in the postcolonial literatures of francophone and anglophone Africa. Although scholars have noted similarities, this book is the first extensive comparative analysis of these traditions; it includes discussions of authors including Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Alejo Carpentier, Augusto Roa Bastos, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jose Marmol, Esteban Echeverria, Ousmane Sembene , Chinua Achebe, Aminata Sow Fall, Henri Lopes, Sony Labou Tansi, and Ahmadou Kourouma. This juxtaposition illuminates the internal dynamics of the dictator novel as a literary genre. In so doing, Armillas-Tiseyra puts forward a comparative model relevant to scholars working across the Global South.
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• Introduction: The papier-mache parrot
• Writing aporia: aesthetics and politics in the dictator novel of the global South
• Tabula rasa: Juan Manuel de Rosas and the emergence of the dictator as a literary figure
• Fathers of the fatherlands: writing, politics, and literary form at the end of the Latin American "boom"
• Mesaventures: the politics and poetics of the dictator novel in the African postcolony
• The dictator in the corpolony: on the dictator novel in the time of transition
• Afterword: Moving outward and forward

Where there are dictators, there are novels about dictators. But "dictator novels" do not simply respond to the reality of dictatorship. As this genre has developed and cohered, it has acquired a self-generating force distinct from its historical referents. The dictator novel has become a space in which writers consider the difficulties of national consolidation, explore the role of external and global forces in sustaining dictatorship, and even interrogate the political functions of writing itself. Liteary representations of the dictator, therefore, provide ground for a self-conscious and self-critical theorization of the relationship between writing and politics itself. The Dictator Novel positions novels about dictators as a vital genre in the literatures of the Global South. Primarily identified with Latin America, the dictator novel also has underacknowledged importance in the postcolonial literatures of francophone and anglophone Africa. Although scholars have noted similarities, this book is the first extensive comparative analysis of these traditions; it includes discussions of authors including Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Alejo Carpentier, Augusto Roa Bastos, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jose Marmol, Esteban Echeverria, Ousmane Sembene , Chinua Achebe, Aminata Sow Fall, Henri Lopes, Sony Labou Tansi, and Ahmadou Kourouma. This juxtaposition illuminates the internal dynamics of the dictator novel as a literary genre. In so doing, Armillas-Tiseyra puts forward a comparative model relevant to scholars working across the Global South.
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• Preface-- The Encyclopedia-- Bibliography-- Index.
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Includes more than 150 alphabetically arranged entries on authors, theoreticians, national literatures, and broad-ranging concepts that chart the continuing impact of European and other empires on cultural production throughout the world. The collapse of empires has resulted in a remarkable flourishing of indigenous cultures in former colonies. The end of the colonial era has also witnessed a renaissance of creativity in the postcolonial world, as modern writers embrace their heritage. The experience of postcoloniality has also drawn the attention of academics from various disciplines and has given rise to a growing body of scholarship. This work reference overviews the present state of postcolonial studies and offers a refreshingly polyphonic treatment of the effects of globalization on literary studies in the twenty-first century. The volume includes more than 150 alphabetically arranged entries on postcolonial studies around the world. Entries on individual authors provide brief biographical details but primarily examine the author's handling of postcolonial themes. So too, entries on theoreticians offer background information and summarize the person's contributions to critical thought. Entries on national literatures explore the history of postcoloniality and the ways in which writers have broadly engaged their legacy, while those on important topics discuss the theoretical origin and current remifications of key concepts in postcolonial studies. Cross-references and cited works for further reading are included, while a comprehensive bibliography concludes the volume.
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• Introduction: Postcolonial criticism and the work of Fiction.
• Chapter 1: Colonialism and colonial discourse
• Chapter 2: Racism, realism and the question of historical context
• Chapter 3: 'Race', reading and identification
• Chapter 4: Representation, representativity and minor literatures
• Chapter 5: Writing and voice: women, nationalism and the literary self
• Chapter 6: Conclusion: literature and the work of criticism
• Chapter 7: Afterword: theory and relativism (Fanon's position)Notes Bibliography.
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In the field of postcolonial studies, the full richness and complexity of the connections between literature, history and ideology are often overlooked by critics hurrying to stake out their political positions. As a result, many arguments are built on unjustified assumptions about the sort of work that literature - and criticism - can and cannot do. In this important and timely book, Harrison sheds new light on what is actually at issue in postcolonial criticism. Focusing on a series of major works, from Conrad's Heart of Darkness to Djebar's autobiography, via Camus's The Outsider and Fanon's polemics, the book draws on and elucidates a wide range of theoretical and critical work. To students unfamiliar with postcolonial criticism it offers a way into the field via key issues and specific examples rather than abstract theoretical summary, while for those already working in the area it raises crucial questions about the very basis of postcolonial critical practice. Postcolonial Criticism is a major intervention in the field of postcolonial studies which re-examines critical suppositions about reading and representation, and which calls into question established notions about the relations between literature and colonialism.
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• General Introduction PART I: ARE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN GENRES STILL RELEVANT? A Compulsive Search for Taxinomy? Major Themes and Genres PART II: REALITY, REALISM AND MIMESIS A Brief Historical Reminder of the Relationship Between Art and Mimesis Art and a New 'Repossessed' Post-Colonial Reality PART III: FROM FANTASY TO MAGIC REALISM The Fantastic and 'Magic Realism' Definitions of the Fantastic Magic Realism: The Building of a Literary Genre Some Characteristics of Magic Realism in the Works of Rushdie and Garcia Marquez Magic Realism and the New Literatures PART IV: TOWARDS HYBRID AESTHETICS Definitions of 'Culture' Post-Colonial Literatures and Hybridization Edouard Glissant's Aesthetic Theories Wilson Harris and Palace of the Peacock Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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Through a broad-ranging survey of the allegory, utopia, the historical novel and the epic in post-colonial literature, Jean-Pierre Durix proposes a critical reassessment of the theory of genres. He argues that in the new literatures, which are often rooted in hybrid aesthetics, the often decried mimesis must be viewed from a completely different angle. Analyzing texts by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris and Edouard Glissant, he pleads for the redefinition of "magic realism" if the term is to retain generic relevance. .
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• Preface-- Introduction: Postcolonial Thought--
• 1. Colonial Cultures--
• 2. Nation and Nationalism--
• 3. Space and Place--
• 4. Gender and Sexuality--
• 5. Cosmopolitanisms--
• 6. New Concerns-- Further Reading-- Bibliography-- Index.
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Postcolonialism as a critical approach and pedagogic practice has informed literary and cultural studies since the late 1980s. The term is heavily loaded and has come to mean a wide, and often bewildering, variety of approaches, methods, politics and ideas. Beginning with the historical origins of postcolonial thought in the writings of Gandhi, Cesaire and Fanon, this guide moves on to Edward Said's articulation into a critical approach and finally to postcolonialism's multiple forms in contemporary critical thinking, including theorists such as Bhabha, Spivak, Arif Dirlik and Aijaz Ahmed. Written in jargon-free language and illustrated with examples from literary and cultural texts, this book addresses the many concerns, forms and specializations' of postcolonialism, including gender and sexuality studies, the nations and nationalism, space and place, history and politics. It explains the key ideas, concepts and approaches in what is arguably the most influential and politically edged critical approach in literary and cultural theory today.
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This is a guide to the often complex area of postcolonial theory and literature from its historical origins to contemporary critical thinking and issues. Postcolonialism as a critical approach and pedagogic practice has informed literary and cultural studies since the late 1980s. The term is heavily loaded and has come to mean a wide, and often bewildering, variety of approaches, methods, politics and ideas. Beginning with the historical origins of postcolonial thought in the writings of Gandhi, Cesaire and Fanon, this guide moves on to Edward Said's articulation into a critical approach and finally to postcolonialism's multiple forms in contemporary critical thinking, including theorists such as Bhabha, Spivak, Arif Dirlik and Aijaz Ahmed. Written in jargon-free language and illustrated with examples from literary and cultural texts, this book addresses the many concerns, forms and 'specializations' of postcolonialism, including gender and sexuality studies, the nations and nationalism, space and place, and history and politics. It explains the key ideas, concepts and approaches in what is arguably the most influential and politically edged critical approach in literary and cultural theory today. "Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging - or indeed downright bewildering. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to grasp, these books explain and explore key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material.
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In this timely contribution to debates about the future of postcolonial theory, groundbreaking scholar Chris Bongie explores the troubled relationship between postcolonial theory and 'politics', both in the sense of a radical, revolutionary politics associated with anti-colonial struggle, and the almost inevitable implication of literary writers in institutional discourses of power. The book builds directly on Bongie's "Islands and Exiles" (Stanford UP, 1998), which was described by the eminent Caribbeanist Peter Hulme as a book that 'may well be the greatest single contribution yet to expanding the field of postcolonial studies.'Bongie explores the commemoration and commodification of the post/colonial using early nineteenth-century Caribbean texts alongside contemporary works. Taking Haiti as a key example he writes lucidly of the processes by which Haiti's world-historical revolution has been commemorated both in the colonial era and in our own postcolonial age - an age in which it is increasingly difficult to separate the reality of memories of anti-colonial resistance from the processes of commodification through which alone those memories can now be thought.Never less than stimulating and frequently controversial, "Friends and Enemies" is likely to provoke new debates among scholars of postcolonial theory, Caribbean studies, francophone literature and culture, and nineteenth century French studies.
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• Introduction: orientations, "negritude", Edward W. Said, Gayatri C. Spivak, minority discourse and internal colonialism. From "Discourse on Colonialism", Aime Cesaire-- on national culture, Frantz Fanon-- an image of Africa - racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", Chinua Achebe-- orientalism reconsidered, Edward W. Said-- three women's texts and a critique of imperialism, Gayatri C. Spivak-- "race", time and the revision of modernity, Homi K. Bhabha-- West Indian literature and the Australian comparison, Diana Brydon and Helen Tiffin-- revolutionary black women - making ourselves subject, Bell Hooks-- toward a theory of minority discourse - what is to be done?, Abdul Janmohamed and David Lloyd-- from "In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures", Aijaz Ahmad.
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• Introduction: Orientations-- Negritude Frantz Fanon Anglophone Criticism of Africa and the Caribbean Edward W. Said Gayatri C. Spivak Homi K. Bhabha Commonwealth Literary Studies Women's and Feminist Postcolonial Criticism Minority Discourse and Internal Colonialism Dissenting Voices
• 1. Aime Cesaire, from Discourse on Colonialism
• 2. Frantz Fanon, 'On National Culture'
• 3. Chinua Achebe, 'An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness'.
• 4. Edward W. Said, 'Orientalism Reconsidered'
• 5. Gayatri C. Spivak, 'Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism'
• 6. Homi K. Bhabha, ' "Race", Time and the Revision of Modernity'
• 7. Diana Brydon and Helen Tiffin, 'West Indian Literature and the Australian Comparison'
• 8. Bell Hooks, 'Revolutionary Black Women: Making Ourselves Subject'
• 9. Abdul JanMohamed and David Lloyd, 'Toward a Theory of Minority Discourse: What is to be Done?'
• 10. Aijaz Ahmad, from In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures.
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Postcolonial theory is a relatively new area in critical contemporary studies, having its foundations in the study of colonial discourse, neo-colonialism and Commonwealth literature. This reader contains 13 essays focusing on colonial discourse, covering such topics as the decolonization of African literature; literary studies and British rule in India; literature of modern Europe; language of class; and the ideologies of immigration.
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Post-colonial theory is a relatively new area in critical contemporary studies, having its foundations more Postcolonial Criticism brings together some of the most important critical writings in the field, and aims to present a clear overview of, and introduction to, one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of contemporary literary criticism. It charts the development of the field both historically and conceptually, from its beginnings in the early post-war period to the present day. The first phase of postcolonial criticism is recorded here in the pioneering work of thinkers like Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, and Gayatri Spivak. More recently, a new generation of academics have provided fresh assessments of the interaction of class, race and gender in cultural production, and this generation is represented in the work of Aijaz Ahmad, bell hooks, Homi Bhabha, Abdul JanMohamed and David Lloyd. Topics covered include negritude, national culture, orientalism, subalternity, ambivalence, hybridity, white settler societies, gender and colonialism, culturalism, commonwealth literature, and minority discourse. The collection includes an extensive general introduction which clearly sets out the key stages, figures and debates in the field. The editors point to the variety, even conflict, within the field, but also stress connections and parallels between the various figures and debates which they identify as central to an understanding of it. The introduction is followed by a series of ten essays which have been carefully chosen to reflect both the diversity and continuity of postcolonial criticism. Each essay is supported by a short introduction which places it in context with the rest of the author's work, and identifies how its salient arguments contribute to the field as a whole. This is a field which covers many disciplines including literary theory, cultural studies, philosophy, geography, economics, history and politics. It is designed to fit into the current modular arrangement of courses, and is therefore suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate courses which address postcolonial issues and the 'new' literatures in English.
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