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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nayar, Pramod K.,

Titel

The postcolonial studies dictionary

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, England : Wiley Blackwell,

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

• Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Books

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of terms; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter A; aboriginal; abrogation; Adivasi; Afro-Europe; agency; alterity; ambivalence; anthropology (colonial); apartheid; appropriation; archive (colonial); arithmetic (colonial); assimilado; Chapter B; barbarian/barbaric; Black Atlantic; black consciousness; Chapter C; cannibal; captivity narratives; Carib; cartography; catachresis; citizenship (cultural); citizenship (ecological); census; centre and margin; chutneyfication; colony/colonialism; colonial discourse; Commonwealth Literature; comprador colonialism
• conquistador contrapuntal reading; cosmopolitanism; cosmopolitanism (vernacular); Creole/creolization; cultural imperialism; Chapter D; Dalit; Dark Continent; decolonization; dependency complex; diaspora; discovery; dislocation/displacement; double consciousness; Chapter E; e-Empire; ecological ethnicity; ecological imperialism; education (colonial); effeminacy; Empire - new figurations of; Enlightenment (European); environmentalism; epidermalization; epistemic violence; eroticization; essentialism; ethnicity; ethnocide; ethnography (colonial); ethnopsychiatry (colonial); Eurocentrism
• evangelicalism (colonial)exile; exoticism; exploitation colony; exploration (colonial); Chapter F; feminism (Islamic); fetish/phobia; filiation/affiliation; First World; Fourth World; Chapter G; geographical morality; geography; globe; globalization; Chapter H; hegemony; homonationalism; humanism (European); humanitarianism; hybridity; Chapter I; imaginative geography; imperialism; indentured labour; infantilization; Chapter K; kala pani ('Black Water'); Chapter L; lactification; liminality; Lusotropicalism; Chapter M; magical realism; Manichean allegory; masculinity (imperial); mestizo/a
• mimicrymiscegenation; multiculturalism; Chapter N; national allegory; nationalism (as discourse); native; Native Informant; nativism; Negritude; neocolonialism; New World; Chapter O; Occidentalism; orality; Orientalism; Ornamentalism; Chapter P; picturesque (as colonial-imperial aesthetic); postcolonialism; postcoloniality; postcolony; postnational; primitivism; provincializing; Chapter R; race; refugee; re-orientalism; representation (colonial); Requerimiento; reverse colonization; Chapter S; secularism/post-secularism; settler colonialism; situated knowledge; slavery; stereotyping
• strategic essentialism subaltern; subjectivity (of Europeans, colonial period); subjectivity (of natives, colonial period); sublime (as colonial aesthetic); syncretism; Chapter T; terra incognita; terra nullius; testimonio; text/textuality (colonial); Third World; torrid zones; transculturation; transnationalism; tricontinentalism; tropicality; Chapter U; universalism; Chapter V; vernacular; Chapter W; whiteness/white studies; World Literature; worlding; References; EULA
• This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory. Features a brief introduction to postcolonial theory and a list of suggested further reading that includes the texts in which many of these terms originated Each entry includes the origins of the term, where traceable; a detailed explanation of its perceived meaning; and examples of the term's use in literary-cultural texts Incorporates terms and concepts from multiple disciplines, including anthropology, liter
• English
• Description based on print version record.