... . Culture and Imperialism . New York : Random House . Scham Sandra . 2008 . “Disinheriting Heritage: Explorations in the Contentious History of Archaeology in the Middle East.” In Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique , edited by Liebmann Matthew Rizvi Uzma Z. , 165 – 76...

..., as a rejection of the moral and epistemological certainties of omniscient narration.” The postcolonial critique resonates differently, however, in a postsocialist context, particularly in the wake of debates around socialist realist aesthetics. Although I regrettably have neither the space nor the expertise...

... century, novels disseminate this abstract and singular definition of transsexuality and also recover the various and complex narratives of sexed embodiment first found in the case studies. © 2015 by University of Oklahoma 2015 British modernism transgender studies postcolonial critique early...

... the postcolonial bildungsroman, especially the one proposed by Slaughter, is suited for exploring themes of human rights in Dalit life-writing. The only common link between Nayar's and Ananthamurthy's approaches to the bildungsroman, therefore, is their interest in deploying the genre to critique issues of caste...

...Steven Salaita Afzal-Khan Fawzia and Seshadri-Crooks Kalpana , eds. The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies . Durham : Duke UP , 2000 . 412 pp. © COPYRIGHT 2002 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2002 REVIEWS ATTITUDES...

...Steven Salaita Majid Anouar . Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World . Durham : Duke UP , 2000 . 304 pp. © COPYRIGHT 2002 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2002 REVIEWS ATTITUDES TOWARD HISTORY Leon...

... "postcolonial" is the more appropriate term for Latin American critical discourse on colonialism; and Ella Shohat, who, in the style of Anne McClintock, critiques the problematic uses of such a term. Given the goals set forth by Afzal-Khan and Seshadri-Crooks, the selections are prudently employed...

... as a Postcolonial Experience, Chow’s eighth monograph, keeps faith with the transgressive dynamism of Chow’s work. The collection of five essays — which ends with one about Chow’s mother, a well-­regarded radio broadcaster in midcentury Hong Kong — includes ethnographic critique, literary analysis...

... of the nation, invested as they are in the very concept of 'nation- ' Apart from the writers I discuss in this essay - which focuses mainly on the South African context - a striking critique of the predominance of the national allegoristic postcolonial master-narrative is to be found in Amit...

... work Guerrillas as marking a shift toward what it terms postcolonial naturalism as a way of both distancing the author’s aesthetic from the realism of a depleted romantic nationalism and anticipating, through its own codification of affect, an as yet unnamable globalization. Copyright © 2017...

.... The conflict between the search for knowledge and the inadequacies of narrative would appear to doom the encyclopedism of Rahman’s characters and readers alike, but the novel complicates this conclusion. Rather than refuting or embracing the pursuit of knowledge, In the Light fosters a uniquely postcolonial...

... contributions to any number of disciplinary conversations, including postcolonial studies, singled out. Markley begins with a manifesto-like state- ment that revisionary historians of England's relation with the Far East, like tra- ditionalist historians, rely on historical narratives that assume...

... of Textual Spaces . Trans. Vollroth Robert A. . Amherst, NY : Humanity Books , 1984 . Moylan Tom . “ Utopia, the Postcolonial, and the Postmodern .” Science Fiction Studies 29 ( 2002 ): Neuwirth Robert . Shadow Cities . New York : Routledge , 2005 . Pordzik Ralph...

... Postcolonial bildungsromane potentially critique both notions of becoming, for “colonialism disrupts the bildungsroman and its humanist ideals, producing jagged effects on both the politics and poetics of subject formation” (ibid.: 411). For example, Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus, argues Emer Nolan (1995...

... identification between evolutionary teleology and euro-centrism. And despite having often served as targets for postcolonial critiques, Haggard, Burroughs and Doyle are not merely drummers of the Empire. My interest here is not in rehashing such post-colonial critiques. Rather, it is in pointing out...

... . Chakrabarty Dipesh . 2009 . “The Climate of History: Four Theses.” Critical Inquiry 35 , no. 2 : 197 – 222 . ———. 2012 . “Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change.” New Literary History 43 , no. 2 : 1 – 18 . ———. 2014 . “Baucom's Critique: A Brief Response...

...James Arnett; Angela Wright This essay takes a close look at the way Alain Mabanckou positions himself vis-à-vis discipline and market by way of his negotiations of a range of terms—French, francophone, postcolonial, and world literature—and the ways that such disciplinarity and appeal might...

... objection, to be clear, is not to the inclusion of new works into the canon, nor to its expansion, but specifically to the politics of the multiculturalist critique. He strenuously rejects any contention that exclusion or social identity are factors in canon formation, arguing instead that what the canon...

...Simon Hay This essay asks what it means to call Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (1988) a postcolonial bildungsroman. It argues that there is a fundamental contradiction in the term between the pressures and practices of bildung (education; development; formation), on the one hand...

... Cultural Philosophy .'' Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader . Ed. Eze Emmanuel Chukwudi . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Blackwell , 1997 . 197 - 220 . Bhabha Homi K. The Location of Culture . London : Routledge , 1994 . Chinweizu Onwuchekwa Jemie Madubuike...