Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction

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This key new introduction, by one of the leading exponents in the field, explains in clear and accessible language the historical and theoretical origins of post-colonial theory. Acknowledging that post-colonial theory draws on a wide, often contested, range of theory from different fields, Young analyzes the concepts and issues involved, explains the meaning of key terms, and interprets the work of some of the major writers concerned, to provide an ideal introductory guide for those undergraduates or academics coming to post-colonial theory and criticism for the first time. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgements 1 Colonialism and the Politics of Postcolonial Critique Part I Concepts in History 2 Colonialism 1 COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM: DEFINING THE TERMS 2 COLONIZATION AND DOMINATION 3 Imperialism 1 THE FRENCH INVENTION OF IMPERIALISM 2 DIFFERENCES IN IMPERIAL IDEOLOGIES AND COLONIAL SYSTEMS 3 BRITISH IMPERIALISM 4 GREATER BRITAIN 5 AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 4 Neocolonialism 1 NEOCOLONIALISM: THE LAST STAGE OF IMPERIALISM 2 DEVELOPMENT AND DEPENDENCY THEORY 3 CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT THEORY 5 Postcolonialism 1 STATES 2 LOCATION 3 KNOWLEDGE 4 LANGUAGE Part II European Anti–colonialism 6 Las Casas to Bentham 1 THE HUMANITARIAN OBJECTION 2 THE ECONOMIC OBJECTION 7 Nineteenth–century Liberalism 1 NINETEENTH-CENTURY ANTI-COLONIALISM IN FRANCE: ALGERIA AND THE MISSION CIVILISATRICE 2 NINETEENTH-CENTURY ANTI-COLON IALISM IN BRITAIN 3 INDIA 4 IRELAND 5 J. A. HOBSON’S IMPERIALISM: A STUDY 8 Marx on Colonialism and Imperialism 1 COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM IN MARX 2 MARXIST THEORIES OF IMPERIALISM Part III The Internationals 9 Socialism and Nationalism: THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL TO THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1 THE FIRST AND SECOND INTERNATIONALS 2 ‘BIN GAR KEINE RUSSIN, STAMM’ AUS LITAUEN, ECHT DEUTSCH’: SOCIALISM AND NATIONALISM 3 THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: MARXISM AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION 10 The Third International, to the Baku Congress of the Peoples of the East 1 THE FORMATION OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL 2 THE SECOND CONGRESS, JULY–AUGUST 1920 3 THE BAKU CONGRESS, SEPTEMBER 1920 11 The Women’s International, the Third and the Fourth Internationals 1 THE INTERNATIONALS AND THE COMMUNIST WOMEN’S MOVEMENT 2 THE THIRD CONGRESS OF THE COMINTERN, JUNE–JULY 1921 3 THE FOURTH CONGRESS OF THE COMINTERN, NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 1922 4 THE FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE COMINTERN, JULY 1924 5 THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH CONGRESSES OF THE COMINTERN, 1928 AND 1935 6 TROTSKY AND THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL Part IV Theoretical Practices of the freedom Struggles 12 The National Liberation Movements: INTRODUCTION 13 Marxism and the National Liberation Movements 1 ABDEL-MALEK ON MARXISM AND THE LIBERATION MOVEMENTS 2 PERIOD ONE: To 1928 3 PERIOD Two: 1928–1945 4 PERIOD 3: AFTER 1945 14 China, Egypt, Bandung 1 MAO AND THE CHINESE REVOLUTION 2 CONTRADICTION IN MAO 3 THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION 4 EGYPT 5 NASSER 6 THE BANDUNG CONFERENCE OF 1955 15 Latin America I: MARIÁTEGUI, TRANSCULTURTION AND CULTURAL DEPENDENCY 1 MARXISM IN LATIN AMERICA 2 MEXICO 1910 3 MARIÁTEGUI 4 CULTURAL DEPENDENCY 16 Latin America II: CUBA: GUEVARA, CASTRO AND THE TRICONTINENTAL 1 COMPAÑERO: CHE GUEVARA 2 NEW MAN 3 THE TRICONTINENTAL 17 Africa I: ANGLOPHONE AFRICAN SOCIALISM 1 PRE-COMMUNIST AFRICAN ANTI-COLONIALISM 2 THE INFLUENCE OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND AFRICAN-CARIBBEAN RADICALS 3 COMMUNIST ACTIVITY IN AFRICA 4 SOUTH AFRICA 5 PADMORE AND JAMES 18 Africa II: NKRUMAH AND PAN–AFRICANISM 1 THE 1945 MANCHESTER PAN-AFRICAN CONGRESS 2 AFRICAN SOCIALISM 3 NKRUMAH 4 NYERERE 5 FROM ‘POSITIVE ACTION’ TO VIOLENCE 19 Africa III: THE SENGHORS AND FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN SOCIALISM 1 FRANCE BETWEEN THE WARS 2 ANTI-COLONIAL ACTIVISTS: HOUÉNOU, SENGHOR AND GARAN KOUYATÉ 3 TOVALOU HOUÉNOU AND THE LIGUE UNIVERSELLE DE DÉFENSE DE LA RACE NOIRE (LDRN) 4 LAMINE SENGHOR AND THE COMITÉ DE DÉFENSE DE LA RACE NÈGRE (CDRN) 5 TIÉMOHO GARAN KOUYATÉ AND THE LIGUE DE DÉFENSE DE LA RACE NÈGRE (LDRN) 6 THE CULTURAL TURN: NÉGRITUDE 7 LÉOPOLD SENGHOR 20 Africa IV: FANON/CABRAL 1 FRANTZ FANON 2 FANON AND FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT 3 FANON AND ALGERIA 4 FANON AND VIOLENCE 5 CABRAL: CULTURE AS RESISTANCE AND LIBERATION 6 THE WEAPON OF THEORY 7 THE ROLE OF CULTURE 21 The Subject of Violence: ALGERIA, IRELAND 1 SUBJECT, SUBJECTION 2 VIOLENCE, VIOLATION 3 NERVOUS CONDITIONS 4 IRELAND: ASSIMILATION AND VIOLENCE 5 IRELAND AND POSTCOLONIAL THEORY 6 ‘IRELAND LOST, THE BRITISH “EMPIRE” IS GONE’: JAMES CONNOLLY AND THE EASTER REBELLION OF 1916 22 India I: MARXISM IN INDIA 1 THE UNIQUENESS OF THE INDIAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT 2 INDIAN SOCIALISM: FROM SOCIALISM TO SARVODAYA 3 MARXISM IN INDIA 23 India II: GANDHI’S COUNTER–MODERNITY 1 CULTURAL NATIONALISM 2 AHIMSA: VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE 3 GANDHI’S ALTERNATIVE POLITICAL STRATEGIES 3.1 Resistance through gender 3.2 Gandhi and the politics of dress 3.3 Gandhi, technology and the media 4 THE DANDI MARCH 5 GANDHI IN LANCASHIRE Part V Formations of Postcolonial Theory 24 India III: HYBRIDITY AND SUBALTERN AGENCY 1 GANDHI’S INVISIBILITY 2 INTIMATE ENEMY 3 DERIVATIVE DISCOURSE 4 HYBRIDITY: AS FORM AND STRATEGY 5 SAMAS AND HYBRIDITY 6 THE HISTORICAL STRATEGY OF INDIAN POSTCOLONIAL THEORISTS 7 SUBALTERN STUDIES 8 SUBALTERNS OF THE SUBALTERNS: ENGENDERING NEW KINDS OF HISTORY AND POLITICS 25 Women, Gender and Anti–colonialism 1 THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE ANTI-COLONIAL MOVEMENTS 2 THE RELATIONS OF FEMINISMS TO THE IDEOLOGIES OF THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE 3 SOCIALISM 4 MODERNITY 5 CULTURAL NATIONALISM 6 THE PROBLEMS FOR FEMINIST POLITICS AFTERINDEPENDENCE 26 Edward Said and Colonial Discourse 1 DISCOURSE AND POWER IN SAID 2 THE OBJECTIONS TO ‘COLONIAL DISCOURSE’ 3 DISCOURSE IN LINGUISTICS 27 Foucault in Tunisia 1 FOUCAULT’S SILENCE : SIDI-BOU-SAÏD AND THE CONTEXT OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY 2 DISCOURSE IN FOUCAULT 3 THE DISCURSIVE FORMATION 4 THE STATEMENT 5 THE REGULARITIES, THE ENUNCIATIVE MODALITIES AND FORMATION OF OBJECTS 6 THE HETEROGENEITY OF DISCOURSE 7 DISCOURSE AND POWER IN THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY 8 A FOUCAULDIAN MODEL OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE 28 Subjectivity and History: DERRIDA IN ALGERIA 1 WHITE MYTHOLOGIES REVISITED 2 MAKE THE OLD SHELL CRACK 3 STRUCTURALISM, ‘PRIMITIVE’ RATIONALITY AND DECONSTRUCTION 4 PILLAR OF SALT 5 THE MARRANO: ‘A LITTLE BLACK AND VERY ARAB JEW WHO UNDERSTOOD NOTHING ABOUT IT’ Epilogue: Tricontinentalism, for a Transnational Social Justice Bibliography Index