Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism

Rutgers University Press

Product Description : Bringing together thirtyseven essays that have helped define the study of colonial and postcolonial cultures this expansive and thoughtfully organized anthology offers an uptodate and indepth overview of this rapidly developing fieldCanonical articles most unexcerpted explore postcolonialisms key themespower and knowledgewhile articles by contemporary scholars expand the discipline to include discussions of the discovery of the New World Native American and indigenous identities in Latin America and the Pacific settler colonies in Africa and Australia English colonialism in Ireland and feminism in Nigeria and Egypt The inclusion of a broad sampling of histories and theories attests to multiple even competing postcolonialisms while the skillful organization of the volume provides a useful map of the field in terms of recognizable patterns shared family resemblances and common genealogiesThe book is divided into nine sections Ideologies of Imperialism The Critiques