Covering more debates, topics and critics than any comparable book in its field The Post Colonial Studies Reader provides the ideal starting point for students and issues a potent challenge to the ways in which we think and write about literature and culture.

List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsGeneral IntroductionIntroduction to the Second EditionIntroduction to the Third EditionPART I: OriginsIntroduction 1. Thomas MacaulayMinute on Indian Education2. Raja RaoLanguage and Spirit3. George LammingThe Occasion for Speaking4. Edward W. SaidOrientalism5. Ato QuaysonIntroduction: Postcolonial Literature in a Changing Historical FramePART II: Issues and DebatesIntroduction6. Gayatri SpivakCan the Subaltern Speak?7. Homi K. BhabhaSigns Taken for Wonders8. Achille Mbembe and Libby MeintjesNecropolitics9. Ann Laura StolerOn Degrees of Imperial Sovereignty10. Christopher TaylorPostcolonial Studies and the Specter of Misplaced Polemics against Postcolonial Theory: A Review of the Chibber Debate11. Bill AshcroftIncluding China: Bei Dao, Resistance and the Imperial StatePart III: Representation and ResistanceIntroduction 12. Ken Saro-WiwaTrial Statement13. Helen TiffinPost-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse14. Ranajit GuhaSubaltern Studies: Projects for Our Time and Their Convergence15. María do Mar Castro Varela and Carolina Tamayo RojasEpistemicide, Postcolonial Resistance and the State16. Anna BernardCultural Activism as Resource: Pedagogies of Resistance and Solidarity17. Nobukhosi Ngwenya and Bettina von LieresSilent Citizens and Resistant Texts: Reading Hidden NarrativesPART IV: NationalismIntroduction18. Frantz FanonOn National Culture19. Partha ChatterjeeNationalism as a Problem20. Homi K. BhabhaDissemination: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation21. Timothy BrennanThe National Longing for Form22. David Cairns and Shaun RichardsWhat Ish My Nation?23. Ephraim NimniNationalism, Ethnicity, and Self-Determination: A Paradigm ShiftPART V: HybridityIntroduction 24. Edward Kamu BraithwaiteCreolization in Jamaica25. Michael DashMarvellous Realism: The Way Out of Négritude26. Homi K. BhabhaCultural Diversity and Cultural Differences27. Robert YoungThe Cultural Politics of Hybridity28. Anjali PrabhuInterrogating Hybridity29. Deepika BahriHybridity, ReduxPart VI: IndigeneityIntroduction 30. Gareth GriffithsThe Myth of Authenticity31. Margery FeeWho Can Write as Other?32. Diana BrydonContamination as Literary Strategy33. James CliffordIndigenous Articulations34. Paul SharradIndigenous Transnational35. Geoff RodoredaThe Mabo TurnPart VII: Race and EthnicityIntroduction36. Henty Louis GatesWriting Race37. Kwame Anthony AppiahThe Illusions of Race38. Stuart HallNew Ethnicities39. Philip GleasonIdentifying Identity40. Howard WinantRace, Ethnicity and Social Science 41. Julian GoPostcolonial Possibilities for the Sociology of RacePart VIII: WhitenessIntroduction42. Frantz FanonThe Fact of Blackness43. Paul GilroyAin’t No Black in the Union Jack44. Richard DyerWhite45. Toni MorrisonWhen Whiteness Became Ideology46. AnnLouise KeatingInterrogating Whiteness47. Anne BrewsterCritical Whiteness Studies48. Mike HillWhiteness, Writing, and Other Ordinary TerrorsPart IX: Gender, Sexuality and Identity Introduction49. Chandra Talpade Mohanty Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses50. Kirsten Holst PetersenFirst Things First: Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature51. Ketu H. KatrakDecolonizing Culture: Toward a Theory for Post-Colonial Women’s Texts52. Sara SuleriWoman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition53. Oyerónké OyewumíColonizing Bodies and Minds54. Golnaz Golnaraghi and Kelly DyeDiscourses of Contradiction: A Postcolonial Analysis of Muslim Women and the Veil55. Chantal Zabus and Samir Kumar DasHijras, Sangomas, and Their Translects: Trans(lat)ing India and South AfricaPart X: LanguageIntroduction 56. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oThe Language of African Literature57. Chinua AchebeThe Politics of Language58. Edward Kamau BrathwaiteNation Language59. Braj B. KachruThe Alchemy of English60. Bill AshcroftLanguage and Transformation61. Nicholas G. Faraclas and Sally J. DelgadoPost-Colonial Linguistics and Post-Creole CreolisticsPart XI: PerformanceIntroduction62. Reina LewisOn Veiling, Vision and Voyage63. Daniel L. Selden‘Our Films, their Films’: Postcolonial Critique of the Cinematic Apparatus64. Eugene Williams"The Anancy Technique", A Gateway to Postcolonial Performance65. Aparna DharwadkerThe Really Poor Theatre: Postcolonial Economies of Performance66. Gareth Griffiths“Pictures on the Wall, Music in the Air”: Popular Culture Forms, Human Rights Agitation and Fiction in Africa67. Helen GilbertIndigenous Festivals in the Pacific: Cultural Renewal, Decolonization and Nation-BuildingPart XII: HistoryIntroduction 68. Wilson HarrisThe Limbo Gateway69. Peter HulmeColumbus and the Cannibals70. Dipesh ChakrabartyPostcoloniality and the Artifice of History71. Ashish NandyHistory’s Forgotten Doubles72. Ato QuaysonThe Sighs of History: Postcolonial Debris and the Question of (Literary) History73. Laura DoyleInter-Imperiality: Dialectics in a Postcolonial World HistoryPART XIII: PlaceIntroduction74. José RabasaAllegories of Atlas75. Graham HugganDecolonizing the Map76. Paul CarterNaming Place77. G. Malcolm LewisIndigenous Map Making78. Bill AshcroftUrbanism, Mobility and Bombay: Reading the Postcolonial City79. Gareth GriffithsPostcolonialism and Travel WritingPart XIV: Production and ConsumptionIntroduction80. Arjun AppaduraiCommodities and the Politics of Value81. Anne McClintockSoft-Soaping Empire82. Graham HugganRe-Evaluating the Postcolonial Exotic83. Sarah BrouillettePostcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace84. Paula Morris‘The Leftovers of Empire’: Commonwealth writers and the Booker Prize85. Hayley TothReading in the Global Literary MarketplacePart XV: Diaspora, Refugees and MigrationIntroduction86. Stuart HallCultural Identity and Diaspora87. Avtah BrahThinking through the Concept of Diaspora88. Ahmed GamalThe Global and the Postcolonial in Post-Migratory Literature89. Susan P. MainsCommentary, Postcolonial Migrations90. Mike PhillipsPostcolonial Endgame91. Claire GallienRefugee Literature: What Postcolonial Theory Has to SayPart XVI: GlobalizationIntroduction92. Roland RobertsonGlocalization93. Arjun ApparudaiDisjunction and Difference94. Simon GikandiGlobalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality95. Ina KernerPostcolonial Theories as Global Critical Theories96. Sankaran KrishnaGlobalization and Postcolonialism: Hegemony and Resistance in the Twenty-First CenturyPart XVII: DecolonialityIntroduction 97. Gurminder K. BhambraPostcolonial and Decolonial Dialogues98. Aníbal QuijanoColoniality and Modernity/Rationality99. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-GatsheniDecoloniality as the Future of Africa100. Ramón GrosfoguelThe Epistemic Decolonial Turn101. Walter D. MignoloColoniality is Far from Over, and So Must Be Decoloniality102. Catherine Walsh‘Other’ Knowledges, ‘Other’ Critiques: Reflections on the Politics and Practices of Philosophy and Decoloniality in the ‘Other’ AmericaPart XVIII: Environment and ClimateIntroduction103. Alfred W. CrosbyEcological Imperialism104. Val PlumwoodDecolonizing Relationships with Nature105. Arundhati RoyThe Greater Common Good105. Russell McDougall, John C. Ryan and Pauline ReynoldsClimate Change as Critical Reading Practice107. Rob NixonSlow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor108. Dipesh ChakrabartyThe Human and The AnthropocenePart XIX: Animals and Speciesism Introduction109. Philip ArmstrongThe Postcolonial Animal110. Marjorie SpiegelThe Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery111. Erica FudgeAnimal112. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment113. J.M. CoetzeeThe Lives of Animals114. Freya MathewsThe Anguish of Wildlife EthicsPart XX: Postcolonial ScienceIntroduction115. Alan J. BishopWestern Mathematics: The Secret Weapon of Cultural Imperialism116. Warwick Anderson and Vincanne AdamsPramoedya’s Chickens: Postcolonial Studies of Technoscience117. Derek HookA Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial118. Kapil RajBeyond Postcolonialism . . . and Postpositivism: Circulation and the Global History of Science119. Suman SethColonial History and Postcolonial Science Studies120. Angela WilleyA World of Materialisms: Postcolonial Feminist Science Studies and the New NaturalPart XXI: Postcolonial SacredIntroduction121. Gauri ViswanathanConversion, ‘Tradition’ and National Consolidation122. Laura E. DonaldsonGod, Gold, and Gender123. William BaldridgeReclaiming Our Histories124. Peter van der VeerGlobal Conversions125. Rosa VasilakiBetween Postcolonialism and Radical Historicism: The Contested Muslim Political SubjectBibliographyIndex