This ground-breaking collection of postcolonial discourses takes a
region-by-region approach to postcolonial theory, giving a sense of
the heterogeneity of postcolonial studies.
The development of postcolonial studies is inextricably tied to
specific geographical, social, and historical conditions. Gregory
Castle's regional approach emphasizes the separate development of
different theories, but also enables students to compare different
colonial problems and the various postcolonial theoretical
solutions that have evolved in different regions.
In order to give students a fuller sense of the themes and
issues specific to different regions, the anthology includes essays
in their entirety. An introductory section includes recent essays
by seminal thinkers like Homi K. Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty
Spivak, and Edward Said. Five sections follow that give coverage to
post-colonial thought in South Asia, the Caribbean, Africa,
Australia and New Zealand, and Ireland. In each of these sections,
issues central to the development of postcolonial thought and its
relation to colonial discourse are featured in essays by some of
the most important scholars writing today.
A general introduction provides the student with an overview of
the issues covered in the anthology, detailing how different
regions respond to the British Empire and its legacy in the
post-colonial world. Though these responses spring from different
kinds of problems, they are directed toward the same source of
power. The continuities between and among these responses, which
are detailed in headnotes for each entry, justify the existence of
the so-called "postcolonial moment."
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