The Oxford handbook of postcolonial studies / edited by Graham Huggan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents

General Introduction, Graham Huggan
Section One: The Imperial Past
Introduction, Graham Huggan
Reason Aside: Reflections on Enlightenment and Empire, Ann Laura Stoler
Empires of Democracy, Tyler Stovall
The Imperial Past: Spain and Portugal in the New World, Patricia Seed
Imperial/Colonial Metamorphosis: A Decolonial Narrative, from the Ottoman Sultanate and Spanish Empire to the US and the EU, Walter Mignolo
Empire, Islam and the Postcolonial, Salman Sayyid
Hegel, Empire and Anti-Colonial Thought, Timothy Brennan
Section One Response: Imperial Histories, Postcolonial Theories, Stephen Howe
Section Two: The Colonial Present
Introduction, Graham Huggan
Violence, Law and Justice in the Colonial Present, Stephen Morton
Renegade Prophets and Native Acolytes: Liberalism and Imperialism Today, Priyamvada Gopal
The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Challenge of Postcolonial Agency: International Relations, US Policy and the Arab World, Waleed Hazbun
Africa s Colonial Present: Development, Violence and Postcolonial Security, Joanne Sharp
Beyond Biopolitics: Agamben, Asylum and Postcolonial Critique, David Farrier and Patricia Tuitt
Indigenous Inhabitations and the Colonial Present, Jo Smith and Stephen Turner
Section Two Response: Towards an Anti-Colonial Future, Peter Hallward
Section Three: Theory and Practice
Introduction, Graham Huggan
Revisiting Resistance: Postcolonial Practice and the Antecedents of Theory, Elleke Boehmer
Third Worldism and the Political Imaginary of Postcolonial Studies, Neil Lazarus
Postcolonialism and/as Translation, Susan Bassnett
Remembering Back: Cultural Memory, Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial Studies, Michael Rothberg
Postcolonialism and Popular Cultures, Simon Featherstone
Race, Racism and Postcoloniality, Pooja Rangan and Rey Chow
Section Three Response: Theory and Practice in Postcolonial Studies, Leela Gandhi
Section Four: Across the Disciplines
Introduction, Graham Huggan
Modes and Models of Postcolonial Cross-Disciplinarity, Diana Brydon
Postcolonialism and Literature, John McLeod
Postcolonialism and History, Dane Kennedy
Slippery, Like a Fish : The Discourse of the Social Sciences, Barry Hindess
At the Limits of the Secular: History and Critique in Postcolonial Religious Studies, Ananda Abeysekara
Postcolonialism and the Environment, Dana Mount and Susie O Brien
Section Four Response: Origins, outcomes and the meaning of postcolonial diversity, David Attwell
Section Five: Across the World
Introduction, Graham Huggan
Perspectives on Globalization and Subalternity, Nikita Dhawan and Shalini Randeria
Postcolonialism, Globalization and the Asia Question, Daniel Vukovich
Our Sea of Islands : Globalization, Regionalism and (Trans)nationalism in the Pacific, Michelle Keown and Stuart Murray
Africa and its Diasporas, Ato Quayson
Postcolonializing the Americas, Charles Forsdick
Irritating Europe, Frank Schulze-Engler
Section five response: What was globalization?, Ali Behdad
Afterword, Stephen Slemon

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised into five cross-referenced sections, 'The Imperial Past', 'The Colonial Present', 'Theory and Practice', 'Across the Disciplines', and 'Across the World'. The chapters offer both country-specific and comparative approaches to current issues, offering a wide range of new and interesting perspectives. The 'Handbook' reflects the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of postcolonial studies and reiterates its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past - in its multiple manifestations - and the contemporary globalized world. Taken together, these essays, the dialogues they pursue, and the editorial comments that surround them constitute nothing less than a blueprint for the future of a much-contested but intellectually vibrant and politically engaged field.