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Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Vorwort zur 2. Auflage -- Vorwort zur 1. Auflage -- Danksagung -- I. Kolonialismus, Antikolonialismus und postkoloniale Studien -- II. Edward W. Said – Der orientalisierte Orient -- III. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak – Marxistisch-feministische Dekonstruktion -- IV. Homi K. Bhabha – Mimikry, Hybridität und Dritte Räume -- V. Postkoloniale Theorie kritisch betrachtet -- VI. Postkoloniale Utopien und die Herausforderung der Dekolonisierung -- Literatur -- Backmatter

A Historical Claim for Justice: Re-configuring the Enlightenment for and from the MarginsContesting Racism in Imperial Germany; Discourse of Difference; The Anthropological Gaze of the Spectacle: Social Practices of Difference; A Feminist History of Racism; Taking the Stage Again; Renewing Enlightenment; Bibliography; Feminist Justice Beyond Law: Spivakian "Ab-Use" of Enlightenment Textuality in Imagining the Other; Introduction; Textually Placing the Native Informant: Spivak Reading Kant; Is Postcolonialism a Feminism? Native Informant as Woman.

"Based on original material, this book offers a series of 12 conversational interviews with a diverse set of postcolonial thinkers from across the globe in the social sciences and humanities. Using a biographical approach to map out life histories, uniquely this book not only examines the key ideas of the thinkers interviewed, but it also invites readers to share their personal journeys to help one understand the experiences that led to their work within the field. The selection of thinkers included within this text is done so not with the aim to offer an encyclopedic index, but rather, to show how postcolonial thought as a broader concern can been found across a range of disciplines"--

Bringing together contributions from various disciplines and academic fields, this collection engages in interdisciplinary dialogue on postcolonial issues. Covering African, anglophone, Romance, and New-World themes, linguistic, literary, and cultural studies, and historiography, music, art history, and textile studies, the volume raises questions of (inter)disciplinarity, methodology, and entangled histories. The essays focus on the representation of slavery in the transatlantic world. Drawing on a range of historical sources, material objects, and representations, they study Jamaican Creole, African masks, knitted objects, patchwork sculpture, newspapers, films, popular music, and literature of different genres from the Caribbean, West and South Africa, India, and Britain. The also reflect on theoretical problems such as intertextuality and explore intersections - postcolonial literature and transatlantic history; postcolonial and African-American studies; postcolonial literary and cultural studies

"Essays questioning the academic notion that "postcoloniality" is the current condition of American Indian communities. Argues that American Indians remain among the most colonized people in the modern world; revises the popular view of the American West and explores the forgotten history of Indigenousness in America"--Provided by publisher