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The Pre-occupation of Postcolonial Studies by Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, R. Radhakrishnan, Ngugi Thiong'o, Ella Shohat, Neil Larsen, Timothy Powell is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies contains essays by both leading figures and younger scholars engaged in the field of postcolonial studies. In this state-of-the-field reader, editors Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks have created a dynamic forum for contributors from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary vantage points to question both the limits and the limitations of postcolonial thought. Since it burst on the academic scene as the “hot” new disciplinary field during the final decade of the twentieth century, postcolonial studies has faced criticism from those who question its “troubling” trajectories, its sometimes suspect epistemological and pedagogical methods, and its relatively narrow focus. With diverse essays that emerge from such disciplines as South Asian, Latin American, Arab, and Jewish studies, this volume responds to skeptics and adherers alike, addressing not only the broad theoretical issues at stake within the field but also the position of the field itself within the academy, as well as its relationship to modern, postmodern, and Marxist discourses. Contributors offer critiques on ahistorical and universalizing tendencies in postcolonial

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Author

Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, R. Radhakrishnan, Ngugi Thiong'o, Ella Shohat, Neil Larsen, Timothy Powell

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822324867

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Education, History