After Colonialism: Imperial Histories And Postcolonial Displacements (princeton Studies In Culture/power/history)

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 Blussé, Gauri Viswanathan, Zachary Lockman, Jorge Klor de Alva, Irene Silverblatt, Emily Apter, and Homi Bhabha. Introduction : After Colonialism / Gyan Prakash -- Pt.1. Colonialism And The Disciplines. Secular Interpretation, The Geographical Element, And The Methodology Of Imperialism / Edward Said -- Africa In History : The End Of Universal Narratives / Steven Feierman -- Haiti, History, And The Gods / Joan Dayan -- Why Not Tourist Art? : Significant Silences In Native American Museum Representations / Ruth B. Phillips -- (cont.) Pt.2. Colonialism And Cultural Difference. The Effacement Of Difference : Colonialism And The Origins Of Nationalism In Diderot And Herder / Anthony Pagden -- Retribution And Remorse : The Interaction Between The Administration And The Protestant Mission In Early Colonial Formosa / Leonard Blussé -- Coping With (civil) Death : The Christian Convert's Rights Of Passage In Colonial India / Gaurai Viswanathan -- Exclusion And Solidarity : Labor Zionism And Arab Workers In Palestine, 1897-1929 / Zachary Lockman -- The Postcolonization Of The (latin) American Experience : A Reconsideration Of Colonialism, Postcolonialism, And Mestizaje / J. Jorge Klor De Alva -- (cont.) Pt.3. Colonial Discourse And Its Displacements. Becoming Indian In The Central Andes Of Seventeenth-century Peru / Irene Silverblatt -- Ethonographic Travesties : Colonial Realism, French Feminism, And The Case Of Elissa Rhaïs / Emily Apter -- In A Spirit Of Calm Violence / Homi K. Bhabha. Edited By Gyan Prakash. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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 000_FrontMatter......Page 1 001_Chapter 1......Page 9 002_Chapter 2......Page 48 003_Chapter 3......Page 74 004_Chapter 4......Page 106 005_Chapter 5......Page 135 006_Chapter 6......Page 161 007_Chapter 7......Page 191 008_Chapter 8......Page 219 009_Chapter 9......Page 249 010_Chapter 10......Page 285 011_Chapter 11......Page 307 012_Chapter 12......Page 334 013_BackMatter......Page 353 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, this volume features essays that re-examine colonialism and its aftermath. FROM LONG BEFORE World War Two until the early 1970s, the main tradition of comparative-literature studies in Europe and the United States was heavily dominated by a style of scholarship that has now almost disappeared.