Loading...

Relocating Postcolonialism

ISBN: 978-0-631-20804-4

February 2002

Wiley-Blackwell

400 pages

Description

Relocating Postcolonialism is a major new collection that challenges many of the assumptions and discursive maneuvers of postcolonialism and assesses its relationship to other academic disciplines and fields of inquiry.

About the Author

David Theo Goldberg is Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine and Director of the system-wide University of California Humanities Research Institute. His books include The Racial State (2002), Race Critical Theories: Text and Context (2002, co-edited with Philomena Essed), and Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (1993).

Ato Quayson is Lecturer in the English Faculty, Director of the African Studies Centre, and Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing (1997), Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process (2000), and Calibrations: Reading for the Social (2002).

Features

  • Brings together well-established contributors and emergent scholars in postcolonialism.

  • Presents essays in dialogue with each other to create a controversial collection that examines the current state of postcolonial studies.

  • Features a conversation between John Comaroff and Homi Bhabha, an interview with Edward Said, and a new essay by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.