After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements

by Gyan Prakash (Editor)

After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America to Europe--the essays in this volume reexamine colonialism and its aftermath. Leading literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists engage with recent theories and perspectives in their specific studies, showing the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world and offering postcolonial reflections on the effects and experience of empire.


The contributions cross historical analysis of texts with textual examination of historical records and situate metropolitan cultural practices in engagements with non-metropolitan locations. Interdisciplinarity here means exploring and realigning disciplinary boundaries. Contributors to After Colonialism include Edward Said, Steven Feierman, Joan Dayan, Ruth Phillips, Anthony Pagden, Leonard Blussé, Gauri Viswanathan, Zachary Lockman, Jorge Klor de Alva, Irene Silverblatt, Emily Apter, and Homi Bhabha.

Genres: History

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Harold · Rating 3 out of 5]

Here is a book that i would swear had never left my shelf from the day i bought it -- until now that i see notes in my own hand inside it.

I made notes, so it must be worth something: minimally 3 stars.
I remember nothing of it: maximally 2 stars.

Rating: 2.5 stars

[Phạm N.]

Great introduction. Will come back to: Joan Dayan, "Haiti, History, and the Gods".

[Yannicke · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some essays are more useful than others. But in general a good work to have on your shelves when you deal with colonial history