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    This document provides a table of contents for a book on postcolonialism. It outlines 8 chapters that will discuss the key topics and debates within postcolonial studies, including: 1. The origins and development of postcolonial theory from Commonwealth literature to Edward Said's Orientalism. 2. Analyzing colonial discourses through concepts like ideology, stereotypes, and resistance. It also provides examples of analyzing works like Kipling's "The Overland Mail". 3. Examining nationalist representations and imagining the nation through concepts of tradition, language, and writers like Fanon and Ngugi. 4. Re-reading and re-writing canonical English literature from a postcolonial perspective

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    This document provides a table of contents for a book on postcolonialism. It outlines 8 chapters that will discuss the key topics and debates within postcolonial studies, including: 1. The origins and development of postcolonial theory from Commonwealth literature to Edward Said's Orientalism. 2. Analyzing colonial discourses through concepts like ideology, stereotypes, and resistance. It also provides examples of analyzing works like Kipling's "The Overland Mail". 3. Examining nationalist representations and imagining the nation through concepts of tradition, language, and writers like Fanon and Ngugi. 4. Re-reading and re-writing canonical English literature from a postcolonial perspective

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    This document provides a table of contents for a book on postcolonialism. It outlines 8 chapters that will discuss the key topics and debates within postcolonial studies, including: 1. The origins and development of postcolonial theory from Commonwealth literature to Edward Said's Orientalism. 2. Analyzing colonial discourses through concepts like ideology, stereotypes, and resistance. It also provides examples of analyzing works like Kipling's "The Overland Mail". 3. Examining nationalist representations and imagining the nation through concepts of tradition, language, and writers like Fanon and Ngugi. 4. Re-reading and re-writing canonical English literature from a postcolonial perspective

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    of 6

    Beginning

    postcolonialism
    Second edition

    John McLeod

    Manchester University Press


    Manchester and New York
    distributed in the United States exclusively
    by Palgrave Macmillan

    Contents

    Acknowledgements
    Preface to the second edition
    Introduction
    Beginning
    Postcolonialism?
    A note on terminology: or, on not using the hyphen
    1

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    From 'Commonwealth' to 'postcolonial'


    Introduction
    Colonialism and decolonisation
    The emergence of'Commonwealth literature'
    Theories of colonial discourses: Frantz Fanon and
    Edward Said
    The turn to 'theory' in the 1980s
    The Empire 'writes back'
    Into the twenty-first century
    'Postcolonialism': definitions and dangers
    Selected reading

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    Reading colonial discourses


    Ideology, interpellation, discourse
    Reading Orientalism
    The shape of Orientalism
    1. Orientalism constructs binary oppositions
    2. Orientalism is a Western fantasy

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    Contents
    3. Orientalism is institutional
    4. Orientalism is literary and creative
    5. Orientalism is legitimating and self-perpetuating
    6. There is a distinction between 'latent' and
    'manifest' Orientalism
    Stereotypes of the Orient and Orientals
    1. The Orient is timeless
    2. The Orient is strange
    3. Orientalism makes assumptions about people
    4. Orientalism makes assumptions about gender
    5. The Orient is feminine
    6. The Oriental is degenerate
    Criticisms of Orientalism
    1. Orientalism is ahistorical
    2. Said ignores resistance by the colonised
    3. Said ignores resistance within the West
    4. Said neglects the significance of gender
    'Ambivalence' and 'mimicry' in colonial discourses
    Stop and think
    Colonial discourses and Rudyard Kipling: reading
    'The Overland Mail'
    Selected reading
    Nationalist representations
    Introduction
    Imagining the nation: forging tradition and history
    Stop and think
    Language, space, time
    National liberation vs. imperialist domination
    Negritude
    Stop and think
    Frantz Fanon, national culture and national
    consciousness
    Nationalist discourses, national culture
    Constructing national consciousness: Ngugi's
    A Grain of Wheat
    Selected reading

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    Contents

    ix

    The nation in question


    The disenchantment with nationalism
    Nationalism: a derivative discourse?
    Stop and think
    Nationalism, representation and the elite
    Nationalism,'race'and ethnicity
    Stop and think
    Nationalism, gender and sexuality
    The nation and its margins
    Stop and think
    English in the colonies: a national language?
    English in the settler nations
    'Third World' Englishes: elite discourses or nation
    language?
    Stop and think
    The nation in question: Chinua Achebe's Anthills of
    the Savannah
    Stop and think
    Selected reading

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    Re-reading and re-writing English literature


    '
    Interrogating the text
    Colonialism and the teaching of English literature
    Colonial contexts
    Stop and think
    Reading literature 'contrapuntally'
    . Stop and think
    V Re-reading Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
    Stop and think
    Jane Eyre: a postcolonial text?
    . Stop and think
    Postcolonial re-writings: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
    'Re-writing': possibilities and problems
    Stop and think
    Selected reading

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    Postcolonialism and feminism


    Some definitions
    The 'double colonisation' of women
    Stop and think
    Postcolonial critiques of 'First World' feminism
    Feminism and 'race'
    Learning the limits of 'First World' feminism
    'Third World'women
    Stop and think
    Can the subaltern speak?
    'Going a piece of the way': creative dialogues in
    postcolonial feminism
    Representing women in Sally Morgan's My Place
    Selected reading
    Diaspora identities
    Migration, colonialism and decolonisation
    What is a 'diaspora'?
    'Of, and not of, this place': home and displacement
    Living 'in-between': from roots to routes
    Hybrid identities at the 'in-between'
    Stop and think
    New ethnicities
    Stop and think
    Cultural diversity, cultural difference and the
    'Black Atlantic'
    Moving pictures: Beryl Gilroy's Boy-Sandwich
    Selected reading
    The limits of postcolonialism?
    The habit of self-critique
    Postcolonial times? The limits of temporality
    New maps (f)or old? The limits of geography
    The problem of 'Western' theory
    The new'ghetto'of postcolonialism
    Postcolonialism, or the logic of capitalist modernity?
    Postcolonialism or tricontinentalism? The limits of
    materialist critique

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    Contents

    xi

    Globalisation and 'postcoloniality': the new imperium?


    Where do we go from here?

    303
    313

    Appendix: 'The Overland Mail (foot-service to the hills)'


    (Rudyard Kipling)

    315

    Further reading
    Index

    317
    327

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