... 232 pp., $75.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) Packaging Post/Coloniality: The Manufacture of Literature Identity in the Francophone World Richard Watts Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005 208 pp., $60.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2006...

... rule as morally different, distant, and inferior be seen. British history comes to give new life to to the ostensibly “noncruel,” just “government” the word khatpat in and through its interactions of the colonial regime. In terms of the function- with a native...

... to queer black women. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 South Africa Jacob Zuma rape Rudyard Kipling literature and colonial history patriarchy racism Thanks to Sumaya Mall for drawing my attention to the Kipling reference during the Zuma rape trial some years ago, and to Hugh...

... unapologetically self-promotional, autobiographical persona. In conversation with recent scholarship on Muslim cosmopolitanism, women's autobiographical writing, and travel literature, this article points to the development of an influential project of Muslim cosmopolitanism in late colonial Sindh that blurred...

... colonial rela- others without reference to empire, but writers like tions in terms of neocolonial cultural dependency Shakespeare, Chaucer, and earlier medieval authors are (“Commonwealth,” “New Literatures in English or also being reread from postcolonial perspectives.4 The rewrite histories...

...Francesca Orsini; Sara Marzagora; Karima Laachir Abstract Against the nationalist production of monolingual literary histories, this introduction to the special section “Multilingual Locals” urges literary and intellectual historians to “place languages back into dialogue.” Colonialism did...

..., Independent and Free, 37. 48Craig, Out of History, 19. 26A more precise date might be 1956, with a shift in atti- 49Harish Trivedi, Colonial Transactions: English Literature and tudes following the Suez Crisis and the realization that Britain India, new ed. (Manchester: Manchester...

... think that any other type colonial powers that once dominated them. From a of literature is too sentimental, too primitive in its global perspective, for example, relatively little is known ideological alliances, or, in other words, not good litera- about the history and culture of Indonesia...

... This self reflexive nature of theories of represen- phasized. Class and caste distinctions between tation narrativizes into the logic of neo-colonialism, women are foregrounded: that it is impossible to know the history of colo- Not all literature written by women is feminist, or nized peoples...

... an inimical relationship existed between the “Muslimness” of Jayasi and the Persian script and between the religiosity within Padmavat and its author. Padmavat , once reproduced by Grierson and Sudhkara Dvivedi in 1911, would be situated solely in a history of Hindi literature. This colonial bifurcation...

....2 The result is ary history, one addition to the march of European the figure of the mimic man. Bhabha argues that literature, following obediently after realism, mod- this logic testifies to the contradiction built into ernism, and postmodernism. In this way, postco- the colonial enterprise...

..., Condé. Oxford Modern Lan- reading, to render the inherent tension between aes- guages and Literature Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon thetic object and history (55). Press, 2001. Pp. 214. Glissant’s Discours antillais refocuses Antillean post...

... Orientalism (New York, Vintage, 1979). In it, Said traces the history of a body of ideas, institutions and practices in relation to 'the Orient' that grew alongside European colonial expansion. Said emphasizes the importance of knowledge about the Orient to the project of ruling as well...

.... empire where English literature as a discipline began its journey.8 But as Roy herself tells us, the arrival of St. Colonizers’ Languages and Colonial Histories Thomas at Calicut and the conversion of high-caste At the climax of the Nigerian...

... . London : Routledge , 2012 . ———. Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism . New York : Columbia University Press , 1996 . Guha Ranajit . History at the Limit of World-History . New York : Columbia University Press , 2002 . Jones Donna V...

... . A History of Persian Literature under Tartar Dominion (AD 1265–1502) . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1920 . ———. A Year amongst the Persians . London : Adam and Charles Black , 1893 . Casanova Pascale . The World Republic of Letters . Translated by DeBevoise M. B...

... Pidal provided a scholarly attempt to explain the images of themselves that Euro- basis for a tradition that considered the Muslim period pean countries projected on their colonies. Said draws a as a mere parenthesis in Spanish history and Castile as picture of Western countries that is culturally...

... Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton University Studies. She is codirector of the documentary film Press, 1993), The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on About Baghdad and cofounder and editor of Jadaliyya Popular...

... a welcome addition to the existing body of work on A vast literature has been generated on the subject of colonialism. colonialism, covering a wide range of disciplines and a In the first of his two essays on colonialism, Nandy deals multitude of genres; it has...

... to and its place in Bengali literature. Furthermore, it was be blamed for the suppression of Bengali popular Vidyasagar’s friend and fellow pandit, Madanmohan culture. Pandits are twice-damned insofar as they are Tarkalankar, who approached the British for funds to supposed to represent pre-colonial...