Postcolonial Studies and Beyond

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Beyond What? An Introduction -- Part 1 Globalization and the Postcolonial Eclipse -- Beyond the Straits: Postcolonial Allegories of the Globe -- On Globalization, Again! -- The Ruins of Empire: The National and Global Politics of America’s Return to Rome...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Beyond What? An Introduction -- Part 1 Globalization and the Postcolonial Eclipse -- Beyond the Straits: Postcolonial Allegories of the Globe -- On Globalization, Again! -- The Ruins of Empire: The National and Global Politics of America’s Return to Rome -- The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery -- Part 2 Neoliberalism and the Postcolonial World -- The End of History, Again? Pursuing the Past in the Postcolony -- A Flight from Freedom -- Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development -- ‘‘The Deep Thoughts the One in Need Falls Into’’: Quotidian Experience and the Perspectives of Poetry in Postliberation South Africa -- Between the Burqa and the Beauty Parlor? Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, and Feminist Politics -- part 3 Beyond the Nation-State (and Back Again) -- Environmentalism and Postcolonialism -- Beyond Black Atlantic and Postcolonial Studies: The South African Differences of Sol Plaatje and Peter Abrahams -- Pathways to Postcolonial Nationhood: The Democratization of Difference in Contemporary Latin America -- Traveling Multiculturalism: A Trinational Debate in Translation -- The Ballad of the Sad Café: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the Post/colonial Question -- Part 4 Postcolonial Studies and the Disciplines in Transformation -- Hybridity and Heresy: Apartheid Comparative Religion in Late Antiquity -- EugenicWoman, Semicolonialism, and Colonial Modernity as Problems for Postcolonial Theory -- The Social Construction of Postcolonial Studies -- Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History -- The Politics of Postcolonial Modernism -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung