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	Post-colonialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As a literary theory or critical approach it deals with literature produced in countries that were once, or are now, colonies of other countries.
		Postcolonial theory became part of the critical toolbox in the 1970s, and many practitioners take Edward Said's book Orientalism to be the theory's founding work.
		Attempts at coming up with a single definition of postcolonial theory have proved controversial, and some writers have strongly critiqued the concept, which is embedded in identity politics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Post-colonialism (529 words)

	Introduction page
		For that matter, other settler countries such as Canada and Australia are sometimes omitted from the category "postcolonial" because of their relatively shorter struggle for independence, their loyalist tendencies toward the mother country which colonized them, and the absence of problems of racism or of the imposition of a foreign language.
		In all of these senses, the "postcolonial," rather than indicating only a specific and materially historical event, seems to describe the second half of the twentieth-century in general as a period in the aftermath of the heyday of colonialism.
		Further, the rise of Postcolonial Studies at a time of growing transnational movements of capital, labor, and culture is viewed by some with suspicion in that it is thought to deflect attention away from the material realities of exploitation both in the First and the Third World.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Intro.html (1341 words)

	Important Works on Postcolonial Theory
		Postcolonial Studies is underpinned by a rich and expanding collection of scholarly texts.
		What follows is a list of important works on postcolonial theory, each of which can play a role in understanding essential concepts in postcolonial studies and their philosophical foundations.
		His examination of language is particularly important for understanding postcolonial theory and the ways in which it deconstructs texts and seeks new contexts for them.
	www.albany.edu /~es1422/theory.html (661 words)

	Some Issues in Postcolonial Theory
		Post-colonial theory deals with the reading and writing of literature written in previously or currently colonized countries, or literature written in colonizing countries which deals with colonization or colonized peoples.
		Postcolonial theory is built in large part around the concept of otherness.
		Postcolonial theory is also built around the concept of resistance, of resistance as subversion, or opposition, or mimicry -- but with the haunting problem that resistance always inscribes the resisted into the texture of the resisting: it is a two-edged sword.
	www.brocku.ca /english/courses/4F70/postcol.html (1205 words)

	Postcolonial Theory Versus Philippine Reality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		On certain appropriate occasions, the victims of "postcolonial" writers like Emerson and Faulkner may still commemorate the ideals of the Enlightenment, of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and so forth; but to celebrate Euro-American culture as a paragon for the Third World simply exceeds the limits of liberal tolerance and even utilitarian prudence.
		Postcoloniality is thus one of those language-games of positionalities or subject-positions whose rules global capitalism has set up and deployed in order to refurbish its worn-out ideological apparatus for subjugating people of color and service its new flexible disposition (Callinicos 1989; Chomsky 1989).
		However, postcoloniality (like the Indian subcontinent) has no ideal-typical essence, so its practitioners claim; consequently, this portrait I delineate becomes simply a shadowy persona in the larger allegory of the crisis of Western imperial hegemony grasped as a symptom of the internal contradictions in the capitalist world system (Bush, Johnston and Coates 1987; Turner 1994).
	www.boondocksnet.com /centennial/sctexts/esj_95a.html (1728 words)

	Postcolonial Literature
		It should be acknowledged that postcolonial theory functions as a subdivision within the even more misleadingly named field of "cultural studies": the whole body of generally leftist radical literary theory and criticism which includes Marxist, Gramscian, Foucauldian, and various feminist schools of thought, among others.
		Postcolonial theory is applied to political science, to history, and to other related fields.
		Postcolonial criticism could be compared to the tendency of Hollywood films set in such countries to focus on the problems of Americans and Europeans within those societies while marginalizing the views of their native peoples.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/anglophone/postcolonial.html (2277 words)

	The Valve - A Literary Organ \| Four Challenges to Postcolonial Theory
		Though Dirlik is probably the harshest general critic of postcolonial theory, by an unusual kind of irony he himself has been drawn into the fold; his work is widely assigned in postcolonial literature and theory courses as well as anthologized in ‘postcolonial studies’ readers.
		The terms of the postcolonial critique are distressingly close to the rhetoric of the Hindu right as they attempt to broaden their presence and entrench themselves institutionally at Indian universities and in public life more generally.
		In this deconstruction, postcolonial theory joins hands (wittingly) with the social constructivist and feminist critiques of science, on the one hand, and (unwittingly) with the right-wing defenders of Hindu science, on the other.
	www.thevalve.org /go/valve/article/four_challenges_to_postcolonial_theory (6705 words)

	Postcolonial Theory Guide
		Postcolonial Literary Theory emerges from the inability of EuroAmerican theory to escape false notions of "the universal." EuroAmerican historiography, philosophy, and literary study assume that many values and value-assigning practices, epistemologies, characteristics of language, genres, psychological and social models, and the like apply across time and place.
		Although almost by definition "theory" is impossible if research and interpretation remain focused on local particulars, scholars using ‘national or regional models’ believe that comparative studies and that ‘theoritizing’ can proceed most responsibly from area-specificity.
		Although Fanon is the ‘founding father’ of this sort of postcolonial theory (as well of other sorts.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /wyrick/debclass/brief.htm (1396 words)

	postcolonial theory 2004
		Postcolonial Theory is both a growing and a contentious field.
		The field of postcolonial theory is perceived as an uncritical condemnation of Western nations, values and culture.
		Postcolonial theory has to be conceptualized as a continuation of these anti-colonial struggles.
	www.earlham.edu /~guvenfe/postcolonialtheory2004.html (1174 words)

	Postcolonial Theory: Theory and Method in American/Cultural Studies
		"Postcolonial" (or post-colonial) as a concept enters critical discourse in its current meanings in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but both the practice and the theory of postcolonial resistance go back much further (indeed to the origins of colonialism itself).
		The term means to suggest both resistance to the "colonial" and that the "colonial" and its discourses continue to shape cultures whose revolutions have overthrown formal ties to their former colonial rulers.
		Brilliant collection of essays and poems asserting and analyzing the postcolonial presence of Chicanos/as, while meditating on the status of real and metaphorical "fronteras/borderlands." Her concept of the "borderlands" has become a key term in contemporary theory.
	www.wsu.edu /~amerstu/tm/poco.html (2082 words)

	Postcolonial Theory and Criticiam: A Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Postcolonial Theory and Theatrical Resistance in Malaysia." SPAN: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.
		"Postcoloniality and the Boundaries of Identity." Callaloo 16.4 (1993): 750-71.
		Wang, N. "Postcolonial Theory and the 'Decolonization' of Chinese Culture." Ariel 28.4 (1997): 33-47.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/post/poldiscourse/bibl.html (8960 words)

	Introduction to International Literature and Postcolonial Theory
		Much of our work with theory will be framed by recurring questions and issues.
		There will also be a class on how to research in the library and one or two computer labs to get students to familiarize themselves with researching internet sources.
		Although no new theory will be introduced, we will be applying the theory for the fall semester to these new texts.
	www.angelfire.com /la/titinas (605 words)

	Amazon.com: Postcolonial Theory: Books: Leela Gandhi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		She is the editor of Shakespeare: New Orientations and The Looking Glass and Other Poems, and coeditor of the journal Postcolonial Studies.
		colonial civilising mission, imperial textuality, postcolonial literary theory, colonial aftermath, colonised world, oppositional criticism, postcolonial intellectual, studia humanitatis, postcolonial theory, colonial encounter, postcolonial studies, postcolonial literature, postcolonial critics
		The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Neil Lazarus
	www.amazon.com /Postcolonial-Theory-Leela-Gandhi/dp/0231112734 (714 words)

	Home Page
		he Postcolonial Studies website (PS) is a project in progress at the English Department at Emory University.
		Begun in Spring 1996, it is intended to serve primarily as a resource for students of postcolonial literature and theory at Emory University.
		Please note that we have tried to avoid duplication of existing resources on the internet in this project; hence the absence of certain obvious topics which may be found elsewhere on the web quite readily.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri (296 words)

	Postcolonial Theory
		Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (1993)
		Arif Dirlik, "The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism," Critical Inquiry, Winter 1992
		Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized (1965)
	english.unc.edu /graduate/phd-postcolonial.html (398 words)

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