Postcolonial Theory & Criticism


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Ian Adam and Helen Tiffin, eds., Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism (1990).

Aijaz Ahmad, "Jameson’s Rhetoric of Otherness and the ‘National Allegory,’" Social Text 17 (1987).

Malek Alloula, The Colonial Harem (1986).

Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?" Critical Inquiry 17 (1991).

Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (1989).

Homi K. Bhabha, "Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse," October 28 (1984).

Homi K. Bhabha, "The Other Question," Screen 24 (1983).

Patrick Brantlinger, Crusoe’s Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America (1990).

Max Dorsinville, Caliban without Prospero (1974).

Simon During, "Postmodernism or Postcolonialism," Landfall 39 (1985).

Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, and Edward W. Said, Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature (1990).

Frantz Fanon, Les Damnés de la terre (1961, The Wretched of the Earth, trans. Constance Farrington, 1968).

Frantz Fanon, Peau noire, masques blancs (1952, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam Markmann, 1967).

Roberto Fernández Retamar, "Caliban" and Other Essays (trans. Edward Baker, 1989).

Henry Louis Gates Jr., ed., Race, Writing, and Difference (1986).

Georg M. Gugelberger, "Decolonizing the Canon: Considerations of Third World Literature," New Literary History 22 (1991).

Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Selected Subaltern Studies (1988).

Dorothy Hammond and Alta Jablow, The Africa That Never Was: Four Centuries of British Writing about Africa (1970).

Barbara Harlow, Resistance Literature (1987).

Fredric Jameson, "Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism," Social Text 15 (1986).

Abdul JanMohamed, "Humanism and Minority Literature: Toward a Definition of Counter-hegemonic Discourse," Boundary 2 12–13 (1984).

Abdul JanMohamed, Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa (1983).

Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized (1965).

Arun P. Mukherjee, "Whose Post-Colonialism and Whose Postmodernism?" World Literature Written in English 30 (1990).

Peter Nazareth, The Third World Writer: His Social Responsibility (1978).

Benita Parry, "Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse," Oxford Literary Review 9 (1987).

Edward W. Said, Orientalism (1978).

Edward W. Said, "Orientalism Reconsidered," Cultural Critique 1 (1985).

Edward W. Said, "Representing the Colonized: Anthropology’s Interlocutors ," Critical Inquiry 15 (1989).

José David Saldívar, The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History (1991).

Stephen Slemon and Helen Tiffin, eds., After Europe: Critical Theory and Post-Colonial Writing (1989).

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987).

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues (ed. Sarah Harasym, 1990).

Helen Tiffin, "Post-Colonial Literatures and Counter-Discourse," Critical Approaches to the New Literatures in English (ed. Dieter Riemenschneider, 1989).

Robert Young, White Mythologies: Writing History and the West (1990).

Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures (1992).

Linda Marin Alcoff and Eduardo Mendieta, eds., Thinking from the Underside of History: Enrique Dussel’s Philosophy of Liberation (2000).

Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996)

Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (1992).

Srinivas Aravamudan, Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804 (1999).

Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies (1998).

Crystal Bartolovich and Neil Lazarus, eds., Marxism, Modernity, and Postcolonial Studies (2002).

Marie Battiste, Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision (2000).

Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly, eds., Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (1994).

Martin Bernal, Black Athena (1987).

Martin Bernal, Black Athena Writes Back (ed. David Chioni Moore, 2001).

Avtar Brah and Annie Coombes, Hybridity and Its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture (2000).

Aquino de Braganca and Immanuel Wallerstein, The African Liberation Reader: Documents of the National Liberation Movements (1982).

Timothy Brennan, At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now (1997).

Timothy Brennan, "Postcolonial Studies between the European Wars: An Intellectual History" (Bartolovich and Lazarus, 2002).

Celia M. Britton, Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory (1999).

Diana Brydon, ed., Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies (2000).

Andrew Bundy, ed., Selected Essays of Wilson Harris (1999).

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000).

Vinayak Chaturvedi, ed., Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial (2000).

Rey Chow, Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies (1993).

Laura Chrisman and Benita Parry, eds., Postcolonial Theory and Criticism: Essays and Studies (1999).

James Clifford, Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century (1997).

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed., The Postcolonial Middle Ages (2000).

Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, eds., Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (1997).

Gaurav Desai, Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library (2001).

Arif Dirlik, The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism (1996).

Eduoardo Duran and Bonnie Duran, Native American Postcolonial Psychology (1995).

Enrique D. Dussel, The Underside of Modernity (trans. Eduardo Mendieta, 1996).

Teresa L. Ebert, "Subalternity and Feminism in the Moment of the (Post)modern: The Materialist Return," Order and Partialities (ed. Kostas Myrsiades and Jerry McGuire, 1995).

Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, ed., Postcolonial African Philosophy (1997).

Frantz Fanon, "L’Algérie se dévoile," L’An V de la Révolution algérienne (1952, "Algeria Unveiled," A Dying Colonialism, trans. Haakon Chevalier, 1965).

Daniel Fischlin and Martha Nandorfy, Eduardo Galeano (2002).

Robert Fraser, Lifting the Sentence: A Poetics of Postcolonial Fiction (2000).

Keya Ganguly, States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity (2001).

Simon Gikandi, "Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality" South Atlantic Quarterly 100 (2001).

Paul Gilroy, Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993).

Edouard Glissant, Le Discours antillais (1981, Caribbean Discourse, 1989).

Edouard Glissant, Poétique de la relation (1990, Poetics of Relation, 1997).

David Theo Goldberg and Ato Quayson, eds., Relocating Postcolonialism (2002).

Ranajit Guha et al., eds., Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society (9 vols., 1982–96).

Stuart Hall, "When Was ‘The Post-Colonial?’" (1996, Brydon).

Peter Hallward, Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing between the Singular and the Specific (2001).

Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter, eds., Imperialism and Orientalism: A Documentary Sourcebook (1999).

Sandra Harding, Is Science Multi-Cultural? Postcolonialism, Feminism, and Epistemologies (1998).

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (2000).

Nicholas Harrison, Postcolonial Criticism (2003).

Paget Henry, Caliban’s Reason (2000).

Peter Hitchcock, Dialogics of the Oppressed (1993).

Peter Hitchcock, "The Genre of Postcoloniality," New Literary History 34 (2003).

Peter Hitchcock, Oscillate Wildly: Space, Body, and Spirit of Millennial Materialism (1999).

Graham Huggan, The Post-Colonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins (2001).

Neil Larsen, Determinations (2001).

Neil Larsen, Reading North by South (1995).

Neil Lazarus, Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World (1999).

Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy MacLean Rogers, eds., Black Athena Revisited (1996).

David Lloyd, Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Post-colonial Moment (1993).

Saree Makdisi, Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity (1998).

Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (1996).

Achille Mbembé, On the Postcolony (2001).

Anne McClintock, "The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term ‘Post-colonialism,’" Social Text 31–32 (1992).

Walter D. Mignolo, The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization (1995).

Laura Moss, ed., Is Canada Postcolonial? (2003).

Ashis Nandy, Alternative Sciences (1995).

Ashis Nandy, The Savage Freud (1995).

Tejaswini Niranjana, Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context (1992).

Alastair Pennycook, English and the Discourses of Colonialism (1998).

Marlene NourbeSe Philip, A Genealogy of Resistance (1997).

Gyan Prakash, ed., After Colonialism: Imperial History and its Postcolonial Displacements (1994).

Timothy J. Reiss, Against Autonomy: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchange (2002).

Ileana Rodriguez, ed., The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader (2001).

Kamal Salhi, ed., Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures (2003).

Chela Sandoval, Methodology of the Oppressed (2000).

E. San Juan Jr., Beyond Postcolonial Theory (1998).

Henry Schwarz and Sangeeta Ray, eds., A Companion to Postcolonial Studies (2000).

David Scott, Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality (1999).

Sanjay Seth, "A ‘Postcolonial World’?" Contending Images of World Politics (ed. Greg Fry and Jacinta O’Hagen, 2000).

Ella Shohat, "Notes on the Postcolonial," Social Text 31–32 (1992).

Stephen Slemon, "The Scramble for Post-Colonialism," De-scribing Empire (ed. Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson, 1994).

Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (1999).

Sanjay Srivastava, Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School (1998).

Asha Varadharajan, Exotic Parodies: Subjectivity in Adorno, Said, and Spivak (1995).

Peter Worsley, Knowledges: Culture, Counterculture, Subculture (1997).

Robert J. C. Young, Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture, and Race (1995).

Robert J. C. Young, Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (2001).

Robert J. C. Young, White Mythologies: Writing History and the West (1990).