This accessible introduction explores the historical dimensions and theoretical concepts associated with colonial and post-colonial studies. Ania Loomba examines the key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism, the relationship of colonial discourse to literature, challenges to colonialism, and recent developments in post-colonial theories and histories in the writings of contemporary theorists, including Edward Said, Abdul JanMohamed, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak. Loomba also looks at how sexuality is figured in the texts of colonialism, and how contemporary feminist ideas and concepts intersect with those of post-colonialist thought. Clear and concise, Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a must for anyone wanting to understand this crucial and complex area.
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...Ania Loomba's is clearly the best exposition on [postcolonialism] so far....Loomba's book becomes the first worthwhile contribution to the dime-a-dozen summaries of the subject.
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Ania Loomba... writes with clarity, patiently explains, provides summaries of contrary opinion, and shows how the topics and approaches that have become part of postcolonial studies have their origins... in other areas.
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Ania Loomba... writes with clarity, patiently explains, provides summaries of contrary opinion, and shows how the topics and approaches that have become part of postcolonial studies have their origins... in other areas.
–World Literature Today
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Ania Loomba is Associate Professor in the Centre for Linguistics and English at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
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37 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
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A good introduction to colonialism and postcolonialism,
This review is from: Colonialism/Postcolonialism (The New Critical Idiom) (Paperback)
I read the book in the process of selecting a text-book that would serve the purpose of introducing my students to the tricky issues pertaining to colonialism and post-colonialism. I would have given it five stars if it were not for the author's failure sometimes in sufficiently expalining some of the terminology in connection with thinkers who influenced this discipline. I had no trouble sailing through her review of Said, Althusser, Fucault and other thinkers whose work I am familiar with but my students are not. I would definitely recommend this book for anyone interested in a conscise introduction to colonialism and postcolonialism but I have to warn you that some background reading is required first or else the first 30 or 40 pages would read like Double-Dutch to the uninformed or first-timer.
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INTRODUCING THE POST COLONIAL,
By R.S.Kurup (KEARALA INDIA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Colonialism/Postcolonialism (The New Critical Idiom) (Paperback)
Comqests and Exodus are as old as human race&hence colonising is no new thing.But when we speak about colonialism we now mean the domination of Asia Africa &the far east by euoropean powers.Ania loomba analyses the phenomenon with unusual insight .Loomba explores the mindset which lead to the conquest of the orient with the help of the wellknown Edward said book"orientalism"but never loses sight of the ground realities.Nor does she forgets the struggles of the oriental people which began almost simultaneous with the colonisation itself.She never loses sight of the great leaders GANDHI fANON &THE LIKE She also mentions with prophetic insight the impending danger of neo colonialism.On the whole I feel It is the best Introduction to the theory called Post colonialism
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Colonialism and imperialism are often used interchangeably. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
colonial discourse studies, postcolonial women, widow immolation, colonised lands, colonised subjects, colonised countries, colonial discourse analysis, colonised peoples, postcolonial intellectuals, postcolonial identities, postcolonial studies, postcolonial theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, United States, Gayatri Spivak, Stuart Hall, Homi Bhabha, Latin America, Peter Hulme, The Tempest, Benita Parry, East India Company, Edward Said, Jane Eyre, Shakespeare's Othello, Frantz Fanon, Mary Louise Pratt, Megan Vaughan, New World, Said's Orientalism, Subaltern Studies, West Indian, Benedict Anderson, George Lamming, Lata Mani, Michel Foucault, Paul Gilroy New!
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Colonialism and imperialism are often used interchangeably. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
colonial discourse studies, postcolonial women, widow immolation, colonised lands, colonised subjects, colonised countries, colonial discourse analysis, colonised peoples, postcolonial intellectuals, postcolonial identities, postcolonial studies, postcolonial theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, United States, Gayatri Spivak, Stuart Hall, Homi Bhabha, Latin America, Peter Hulme, The Tempest, Benita Parry, East India Company, Edward Said, Jane Eyre, Shakespeare's Othello, Frantz Fanon, Mary Louise Pratt, Megan Vaughan, New World, Said's Orientalism, Subaltern Studies, West Indian, Benedict Anderson, George Lamming, Lata Mani, Michel Foucault, Paul Gilroy New!
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- Colonial Discourse/ Postcolonial Theory (Essex Symposia) by Francis Barker on 5 pages
- The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon on 5 pages
- Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon on 5 pages
- Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 6 by Ranajit Guha on 4 pages
- The Invention of Tradition (Canto) by Eric Hobsbawm on page 196, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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