...Charles Forsdick Postcolonial Criticism: History, Theory, and the Work of Fiction. By Nicholas Harrison. London: Polity, 2003. vii, 221 p. University of Oregon 2006 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/256 BOOK REVIEWS BIRTH OF THE SYMBOL...

...SIMON GAUNT During the course of the last decade here has been sustained reflection on intersections between medieval studies and postcolonial theory, the books reviewed here being just a sample of the scholarship now available. But postcolonial approaches to the Middle Ages have proved...

...Revathi Krishnaswamy While the literatures of the (third) world are being rapidly curricularized in revamped Comparative/World or Postcolonial literature classes, the theories and methodologies used to interpret and evaluate these texts are still drawn primarily from the Western tradition...

... + 498 p. In “Foucault in Tunisia,” the penultimate chapter of this formidable historical introduction to postcolonialism, Robert Young points out that an “unresolved tension,” a “disjunctive articulation,” is central to “the most challenging postcolonial theory, for example the work of Bhabha...

...DOROTHY FIGUEIRA University of Oregon 2000 Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures . Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1993 . Appiah, Kwame Anthony. “Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?” Critical Inquiry 17 ( 1991 ): 336 -57. Ashcroft, Bill...

... -49. Parmar, Pratibha. “That Moment of Emergence.” Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video . Ed. Martha Gever, John Greyson, and Pratibha Parmar. New York: Routledge, 1993 . 3 -11. Quayson, Ato. Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? Malden, MA: Polity, 2000...

... of decolonization in postcolonial theory (which in general examines colonialisms outside the United States), nor am I invoking Latin American decolonial theory (which has shown an ambivalent relationship with Indigeneity and has tended to ignore settler colonialism), but rather decolonization in relation...

... spatial theory alongside postcolonial Caribbean discourse, effectively formulating a postcolonial spatial studies. Informed pri- marily by Henri Lefebvre’s materialist theories of space and urbanization, Radović’s argu- ment is that Caribbean literary texts rely on spatial metaphors not to resolve...

...MARIE-PIERRETTE MALCUZYNSKI This essay was written in 1987 in French by the late Polish theorist and critic Marie-Pierrette Malcuzynski and translated by Wendy B. Faris. Malcuzynski explores the theories of the New World Baroque and Neobaroque developed by the Cuban writers Alejo Carpentier...

...? And, in response, how might we write postcolonial history and postcolonial theory without replicating the undergirding authorial logics of colonial rule?” ( 94 ). Yes, the anticolonialists sought not to replicate the authorial logics of colonial rule, but Elam’s broader aim is that we— his readers—not replicate...

... this long held piety. I argue that reading in translation can be a valuable practice for scholars of English and comparative literature alike because it demands that we reconsider the link between the commitment to original languages and the promotion of theories of culture that prize alterity...

... Nugent's East India Journal: A Critical Edition . Ed. Cohen Ashley L. . Delhi : Oxford UP , 2014 . Print . Nussbaum Felicity A. “Between ‘Oriental’ and ‘Blacks so Called,’ 1688–1788.” Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory . Ed. Carey...

... against whatever is hegemonic, whether imperialism and racism or postcolonial literary and cultural theory. She also champions literature as a major vehicle for dissent against more fashionable, often anti- literary terms such as discourse, ideology, and “the unconscious.” Each of Sabin’s chapters...

... against whatever is hegemonic, whether imperialism and racism or postcolonial literary and cultural theory. She also champions literature as a major vehicle for dissent against more fashionable, often anti- literary terms such as discourse, ideology, and “the unconscious.” Each of Sabin’s chapters...

... against whatever is hegemonic, whether imperialism and racism or postcolonial literary and cultural theory. She also champions literature as a major vehicle for dissent against more fashionable, often anti- literary terms such as discourse, ideology, and “the unconscious.” Each of Sabin’s chapters...

... against whatever is hegemonic, whether imperialism and racism or postcolonial literary and cultural theory. She also champions literature as a major vehicle for dissent against more fashionable, often anti- literary terms such as discourse, ideology, and “the unconscious.” Each of Sabin’s chapters...

...: University of Minnesota Press, 1993 . Meizoz, Jérôme. “Le Roman et l'Inacceptable: Polémiques autour de Plateforme de Michel Houellebecq.” Études de Lettres 4 ( 2003 ): 125 -48. Musgrove, Brian. “Travel and Unsettlement: Freud on Vacation.” Travel Writing and Empire: Postcolonial Theory...

..., and the defini- tion of new orders of literacy and literariness are among the issues that have emerged in my own work as a result of defining translation in an extended sense. The new translation studies brings postcolonial comparatism (with its links to Area Studies) and media theory into combustive...

... Travelers: Lessons for a Theory of Conceit.” Third World Quarterly 18 . 5 ( 1997 ): 821 -41. Y Gasset, José Ortega. Man and Crisis . Trans. Mildred Adams. New York and London: W.W. Norton and Company, 1958 . OF POSTCOLONIAL ENTANGLEMENT & DURÉE/227 PIUS ADESANMI...

... the literary and to draw upon a range of theories from anthropology, linguistics, historiography, cul- tural studies, and postcolonial studies. However, despite their obvious relevance to the analysis of cultural encounter, semiological approaches have been curiously underrepre- sented in the growing body...