CONTENTS
List of Illustrations = xiii
Preface = xv
Acknowledgements = xvii
General Introduction = 1
PartⅠ Issues and Debates
Introduction = 7
1 The Occasion for Speaking / George Lamming = 12
2 The Economy of Manichean Allegory / Abdul R. JanMohamed = 18
3 Can the Subaltern Speak? / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak = 27
4 Signs Taken for Wonders / Homi K. Bhabha = 29
5 Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse / Benita Parry = 36
6 The Scramble for Post-colonialism / Stephen Slemon = 45
Part Ⅱ Universality and Difference
Introduction = 55
7 Colonialist Criticism / Chinua Achebe = 57
8 Heroic Ethnocentrism : the Idea of Universality in Literature / Charles Larson = 62
9 Entering Our Own Ignorance : Subject-Object Relations in Commonwealth Literature / Flemming Brahms = 66
10 Western Mathematics : The Secret Weapon of Cultural Imperialism / Alan J. Bishop = 71
11 Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the "National Allegory" / Aijaz Ahmad = 77
Part Ⅲ Representation and Resistance
Introduction = 85
12 Orientalism / Edward W. Said = 87
13 A Small Place / Jamaica Kincaid = 92
14 Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse / Helen Tiffin = 95
15 Figures of Colonial Resistance / Jenny Sharpe = 99
16 Unsettling the Empire : Resistance Theory for the Second World / Stephen Slemon = 104
17 The Rhetoric of English India / Sara Suleri = 111
Part Ⅳ Postmodernism and Post-colonialism
Introduction = 117
18 The Postcolonial and the Postmodern / Kwamen Antyony Appiah = 119
19 Postmodernism of Post-colonialism Today / Simon During = 125
20 Circling the Downspout of Empire / Linda Hutcheon = 130
21 The White Inuit Speaks : Contamination as Literary Strategy / Diana Brydon = 136
22 The Politics of the Possible / Kumkum Sangari = 143
Part Ⅴ Nationalism
Introduction = 153
23 National Culture / Frantz Fanon = 153
24 Fanon, Cabral and Ngugi on National Liveration / Chidi Amuta = 158
25 Nationalism as a Problem / Partha Chatterjee = 164
26 The Discovery of Nationality in Australian and Canadian Literatures / Alan Lawson = 167
27 The National Longing for Form / Timothy Brennan = 170
28 Dissemination : Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation / Homi K. Bhabhs = 176
29 What Ish My Nation? / David Cairns ; Shaun Richards = 178
Part Ⅵ Hybridity
Introduction = 183
30 Fossil and Psyche / Kirsten Holst Petersen ; Anna Rutherford = 185
31 Named for Victoria, Queen of England / Chinua Achebe = 190
32 Of the Marvellouw Realism of the Haitians / Jacques Stephen Ai e' xis = 194
33 Marvellous Realism : The Way out of N e' gritude / Michael Dash = 199
34 Creolization in Jamaica / Edward Kamau Brathwaite = 202
35 Cultural Diversity and Cultural Differences / Homi K. Bhabha = 206
Part Ⅶ Ethnicity and Indigeneity
Introduction = 213
36 No Master Territories / Trinh T. Michha = 215
37 Who is Ethnic? / Werner Sollors = 219
38 New Ethnicities / Stuart Hall = 233
39 White Forms, Aboriginal Content / Mudrooroo = 228
40 The Representation of the Indigene / Terry Goldie = 232
41 The Myth of Authenticity / Gareth Griffiths = 237
42 Who Can Write as Other? / Margery Fee = 242
Part Ⅷ Feminism and Post-colonialism
Introduction = 249
43 First Things First : Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature / Kisten Holst Petersen = 251
44 Decolonizing Culture : Toward a Theory for Postcolonial Women's Texts / Ketu H. Katrak = 255
45 Under Western Eyes : Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Dissourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty = 259
46 Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism / Trinh T. Minh-ha = 264
47 Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak = 269
48 Woman Skin Deep : Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition / Sara Suleri = 273
Part Ⅸ Language
Introduction = 283
49 The Language of African Literature / Ngugi wa Thiong'o = 285
50 The Alchemy of English / Braj B. Kachru = 291
51 Language and Spirit / Raja Rao = 296
52 Constitutive Graphonomy / Bill Ashcroft = 298
53 New Language, New World / W. H. New = 303
54 Nation Language / Edward Kamau Brathwaite = 309
55 Relexification / Chantal Zabus = 314
Part Ⅹ The Body and Performance
Introduction = 321
56 The Fact of Blackness / Frantz Fanon = 323
57 Jazz and the West Indian Novel / Edward Kamau Brathwaite = 327
58 In Search of the Lost Body : Redefining the Subject in Caribbean Literature / Michael Dash = 332
59 The Body as Cultural Signifier / Russell McDougall = 336
60 Dance, Movement and Resistance Politics / Helen Gilbert = 341
61 Feminism and the Colonial Body / Kadiatu Kanneh = 346
62 Outlaws of the Text / Gillian Whitlock = 349
Part XI History
Introduction = 391
69 Unhiding the Hidden / Robert Kroetsch = 384
70 Writing in Colonial Space / Dennis Lee = 397
71 Naming Place / Paul Carter = 402
72 Decolonizing the Map / Graham Huggan = 407
73 Aboriginal Place / Bov Hodge ; Vijay Mishra = 412
74 Ecological Imperialism / Alfred W. Crosby = 418
Part XIII Education
Introduction = 425
75 Minute on Indian Education / Thomas Macaulay = 428
76 The Beginnings of English Literary Study in British India / Gauri Viswanathan = 431
77 On the Abolition of the English Department / Ngugi wa Thiong'o = 438
78 The Neocolonial Assumption in University Teaching of English / John Docker = 443
79 Ideology in the Teaching of English Literature in Canadian Universities / Arun P. Mukherjee = 447
80 Education and Neocolonialism / Philip G. Altbach = 452
Part XIV Production and Consumption
Introduction = 463
82 The Historiography of African Literature Written in English / Andr e' Lefevere = 465
83 Singapore : Poet, Critic, Audience / Peter Hyland = 471
84 Postcolonial Culture, Postimperial Criticism / W. J. T. Mitchell = 475
85 The Book Today in Africa / S. I. A. Kotei = 480
86 Literary Colonialism : Books in the Third World / Philip G. Altbach = 485
Bibliography = 491
Index = 514