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This popular text provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The readings are drawn from a diverse selection of thinkers both historical and contemporary.

Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory

• Cover


• Half Title


• Title Page


• Copyright Page


• Table of Contents


• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: An Introduction


• Part One: Theorising Colonised Cultures and Anti-Colonial Resistance


• Introduction


• 1 Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century


• 2 On National Culture


• 3 National Liberation and Culture


• 4 Can the Subaltern Speak?


• 5 Remembering Fanon: Self, Psyche and the Colonial Condition


• Part Two: Theorising the West


• Introduction


• 6 From Orientalism


• 7 Orientalism and its Problems


• 8 Orientalism and After


• 9 From Discourse on Colonialism


• 10 From The Consequences of Modernity


• Part Three: Theorising Gender


• Introduction


• 11 Under Western Eyes: Feminist


• 12 The Unspeakable Limits of Rape: Colonial Violence and Counter-Insurgency


• 13 Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition


• 14 Speaking in Tongues: Dialogics, Dialectics and the Black Woman Writer?s Literary Tradition


• Part Four: Theorising Post-Coloniality: Intellectuals and Institutions


• Introduction


• 15 What is Post(-)colonialism?


• 16 The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term ?Post-colonialism?


• 17 Overworlding the ?Third World?


• 18 Disjuncture end Difference in the Global Cultural Economy


• 19 Towards a Critical Theory of Third World Films


• 20 Beyond Ethnocentrism: Gender, Power and the Third- World Intelligentsia


• Part Five: Theorising Post-Coloniality: Discourse and Identity


• Introduction


• 21 Identity and Its Discontents: Women and the Nation


• 22 Cultural Identity and Diaspora


• 23 Urban Social Movements, ?Race? and Community


• 24 Postmodern Blackness<