Title & Author:

After colonialism : imperial histories and postcolonial displacements / edited by Gyan Prakash.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1995.

Description:

viii, 352 pages ; 24 cm

Series:

Princeton studies in culture/power/history.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Colonialism and the disciplines -- Secular interpretation, the geographical element, and the methodology of imperialism -- Africa in history: the end of universal narratives -- Haiti, history, and the gods -- Why not tourist art? Significant silences in Native American museum representations. Colonialism and cultural difference -- The effacement of difference: colonialism and origins of nationalism in Diderot and Herder -- Retribution and remorse: the interaction between the administration and the protestant mission in early colonial Formosa -- Coping with (civil) death: the Christian convert's rights of passage in colonial India -- Exclusion and solidarity: labor Zionism and Arab workers in Palestine, 1897-1929 -- The postcolonization of the (Latin) American experience: a reconsideration of "colonialism," "postcolonialism," and "Mestizaje". Colonial discourse and its displacements -- Becoming Indian in the Central Andes of seventeenth-century Peru -- Ethnographic travesties: colonial realism, French feminism, and the case of Elissa Rhaïs --In a spirit of calm violence.

Summary:

Publisher description: After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America to Europe--the essays in this volume reexamine colonialism and its aftermath. Leading literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists engage with recent theories and perspectives in their specific studies, showing the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world and offering postcolonial reflections on the effects and experience of empire. The contributions cross historical analysis of texts with textual examination of historical records and situate metropolitan cultural practices in engagements with non-metropolitan locations. Interdisciplinarity here means exploring and realigning disciplinary boundaries. Contributors to After Colonialism include Edward Said, Steven Feierman, Joan Dayan, Ruth Phillips, Anthony Pagden, Leonard Blusse;, Gauri Viswanathan, Zachary Lockman, Jorge Klor de Alva, Irene Silverblatt, Emily Apter, and Homi Bhabha.

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ISBN:

0691037434 (CL)
9780691037431 (CL)
0691037426 (PA)
9780691037424 (PA)

Subject:

Colonies History.
Imperialism History.
Colonies Histoire.
Impérialisme Histoire.
15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
Colonies.
Imperialism.
Kolonialismus
Nationenbildung
Kultur
Vielfalt
Kulturimperialismus
Assimilation
Kolonialisme.
Nationalisme Études transculturelles.
Minorités Études transculturelles.
Acculturation Études transculturelles.
Colonies Histoire Études transculturelles.
Impérialisme Études transculturelles.
Entwicklungsländer
kolonisatie
colonization
geschiedenis
history
migratie
migration
nederzetting
settlement
wereld
world
autonomie
autonomy
onafhankelijkheid
independence
Political History
Politieke Geschiedenis

Form/genre:

History.
History (form)
Congresses (form)

Added entries:

Prakash, Gyan, 1952- editor.
Princeton studies in culture/power/history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269439
Call No.: BIB 201691
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available