Pramod K. Nayar (editor) - Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology

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A Companion to Comparative Literature
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A Companion to Translation Studies
Edited by Sandra Bermann and Catherine Porter

How to Read World Literature
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World Literature in Theory
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A Said Dictionary
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Other Asias
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EDITED BY PRAMOD K. NAYAR

This edition first published 2016
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Postcolonial studies : an anthology / edited by Pramod K. Nayar.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-118-78099-2 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-118-78100-5 (pbk.) 1.Postcolonialism in literature. 2.Postcolonialism. 3.Globalization in literature. 4.Globalization. 5.Transnationalism in literature. 6.Transnationalism.
I.Nayar, Pramod K., editor.
PN56.P555P674 2016
809.93358dc23

2015019934

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: Hawara checkpoint, West Bank. Photo Loay Abu Haykel / Reuters / Corbis

This anthology is determinedly interdisciplinary in nature. Scholars from anthropology, international relations, history, publishing, sociology, gender studies, philosophy of science, film and media studies, political science, and the postcolonial ubiquitous literary studies add the heft of methodological diversity to the field we have come to call postcolonial studies. The aim here is to not only open up these many routes into the postcolonial but also to foreground how different disciplines bring their own politics, whether about cultural hybridity or political economy, into the analyses.

While traditional fields of analysis such as literature, identity politics, agency, the nation-state, and representationality, continue to find their space in the volume, a considerable amount of emphasis has been laid on emergent domains and analytic practices. Essays on environmentalism and the slow violence (Rob Nixons term) of neocolonial corporate activities in the formerly colonized regions, electronic empires and the exploitative nature of the digital economy that enmeshes the Third World in new forms of debt, labor, and resource-sharing, digital archivization, torture, identity politics online, postcolonial-feminist epistemologies in science and technology constitute, therefore, the expanded field of postcolonial studies in this volume.

While postcolonialism remains contested in theory and in practice, the breadth of thinkers united in the task of foregrounding common histories of racialized oppression and political readings of texts, and committed to pluralist, emancipatory-liberatory ethics of identity and politics that the volume brings together indicates that the field thrives in precisely its diversity and contested nature.

PKN
Hyderabad, India
April 2014

My gratitude in different measures (all of you know the quantum owed to each of you) to: Emma Bennett at Wiley Blackwell for her interest, the months of discussion over the project before finalization, and her helpful suggestions; Deirdre Ilkson, Wiley Blackwell, who fielded several queries with speed and efficiency; Ben Thatcher, Wiley Blackwell, for being significantly helpful at the production stage; parents and parents-in-law, Nandini and Pranav for being grounded at all times so as to ensure the everyday is smoothened out, and for their constant support; V. Premlata for regularly sending me stuff to read; Saradindu Bhattacharya for sourcing materials at short notice; friends, for their affection and (the usual) bewildered interest at my self-imposed workload: Ajeet, Neelu, Ibrahim, Walter; and Anna, who yet again demonstrated with characteristic loyalty and warmth that the projects existing as fantasies in my head are realistic, necessary, and doable.

Postcolonialism has never been as relevant as it is today, and the present volume, in its disciplinary range and methodological depth, seeks to demonstrate the validity of this claim. Postcolonialism, as the theoretical-philosophical wing of the condition of postcoloniality (and a postcoloniality caught up in the circuits of amplified globalization) that offered, not in the too distant past, modes of reading the colonial archives, continues to offer the politically relevant methodological-analytical tools needed to deal with new social, economic, cultural, and political contexts and situations. This has also meant a massive expansion